Unfortunately, no; this if structure is in the main procedural loop. By all
reasoning, it should test the condition, and if the two data names are
equal, just go to the next sentence. But it always sees them as unequal,
and I never figured out why.
Fortunately, a requirements change may make this test irrelevant.
I'm also having trouble with values stored in the DFHCOMMAREA. I store
three items: the account number, and the key of the first and last record I
just displayed on the last map I sent to the user.
As long as I am scrolling forward, this works perfectly, as expected. As
soon as I hit the key to begin the scroll backward, however, the first four
characters of the 24-byte key that contains the first record I displayed on
the map are suddenly replaced by spaces, and the fifth character with a B.
I don't know where the spaces or the B came from, as the key is numeric.
Once again, though, the data name holding the key is alphanumeric, because
the key is 24 bytes long.
But why would the value suddenly change? I don't know.
As I've learned that this list really shouldn't be addressing CICS
questions, I'll only post a code segment if folks wouldn't object, or if
someone who works with CICS is willing to take a look.
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Is it possible that your program is just running into the paragraph? EG if
coming from a section, it will execute everything till the next section
unless you specify the THRU portion of the Perform command.
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That is the logical place to check the values.\
Scott Lindstrom <SLindstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can you display the contents of ACEMPNOI and WS-COMM-BEGIN after the ELSE
just to confirm what you think is true?
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I'm a very new CICS programmer, and I'm running into a problem.
I'm trying to compare two data items. Both are PIC X(09). Both will contain
numbers, though.
At one point in the CICS program, I have:
IF ACEMPNOI = WS-COMM-BEGIN
NEXT SENTENCE
ELSE
PERFORM 1100-START-BROWSE THRU 1100-EXIT.
The problem is, the Else branch always triggers when the program reaches
this statement, as though the two data values are different, even when I can
verify that they are not.
ACEMPNOI is the field that receives the account number from the CICS map.
WS-COMM-BEGIN is the field in the DFHCOMMAREA that contains the last
ACEMPNOI that was searched on. I save it to this COMMAREA data item whenever
the program executes a successful STARTBR.
What am I doing wrong here?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Lora
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