WDSC DDS Source Help - NOT!!!

I just went through a few hours of unnecessary time wasting, thanks to
insufficient source help for DDS.

 

I was trying to find out how to require a field to be mandatory entry on one
of my screens.  I found the "CHECK(ME)" keyword through the DDS source help
through WDSC, great.  I then went through a few hours of hell trying to
figure out why it wouldn't work.

Through WDSC source help, the description for the 'CHECK keyword says: 

Use this keyword to perform the following functions, depending on the
parameter values specified: 

...and then lists a bunch of parameters without describing any of them.  I
did get a little more info from "CHGINPDFT", but not enough to figure out
what was wrong.

Finally out of frustration I went to theV5R2 help online and found the DDS
reference there has 13 pages of text for the "CHECK" keyword fully
describing all the parameters and how and why I needed to use DSPATR(MDT)
and (ND) to resolve my problem.

Apparently someone in the "WDSC Source Help Dept." decide that those other
12 pages weren't necessary!  Gee, thanks!

 

Richard L. Weber  |  Senior Systems Analyst, TOYS 'Я' US International  |
973.617.3497  |  weberr@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:weberr@xxxxxxxxxxx> 

 

                     There are only 10 kinds of people in the world:  Those
that understand binary and those that do not.

 


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