Re: Dspatr(RI)

On 17/07/2009, at 5:50 AM, sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

When I set BadMonbock1 *On it will not RI the monreas1 field, but does
display my errmsg & RI the Monin1 field & position to it. Why isn't the
monreas1 field being RI?

Working as designed and documented. When ERRMSG or ERRMSGID is in effect the system sends only the text and attributes of the error message. It does not send anything else to the display. To accomplish this the system uses the keywords PUTOVR/OVRATR/OVRDTA under the covers. Therefore when ERRMSG or ERRMSGID are active the only stuff visible on the screen is what was there on the write immediately before the write with ERMSG or ERRMSGID.

You can work around this behaviour by using a different indicator for MONREAS1. Set this on in your program (but leave the ERRMSG indicator off) and write to the display. Then turn off the MONREAS1 indicator and turn on the ERRMSG indicator and write again.

You may also be able to add OVRATR (to change RI), and if MONREAS1 contains data not currently on the display then add OVRDTA (to change text). Condition these with indicator 31. I would expect them to take effect by piggy-backing on the ERRMSG data stream. I'm not sure since I can't recall designing a screen that had this requirement. Either ERRMSG has been all I've needed or I do all the error handling programmatically.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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