Re: ERRMSG Keyword in display files....

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date:   6/26/97  6:41 PM

RE:     Re: ERRMSG Keyword in display files....

Mr. Prakash

While I agree with Mr. Blawson's assumptions and conclusions,  I believe in
the long run you would be much better served by using an Error Message 
subfile.  It has many, many advantages over ERRMSG keyword including 
not causing the problem you now see.

John Carr CDP
EdgeTech

>If I understand you correctly, you are redisplaying a screen after changing
>some data in your program and the changes are not reflected on screen.

>The problem is that the ERRMSG keyword also implies a PUTRETAIN keyword.
>Therefor the input fields are not disturbed.  Depending upon you
>application, you may be able to get around this problem with the following
>sequuence:
>                       WRITE RCDFMT
>                       SETON ERRMSG Indicators
>                       EXFMT RCDFMT

>This will cause the fields to be updated on the screen.
>No warranty is expressed or implied without seeing the rest of the code ;).

> blawson@m1.interserv.com



At 10:16 PM 6/26/97 +0500, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>      I've got some date fields on display record defined as numeric length 
>8,0. 
>>The user enters a 6-Digit(Without Century) date in these fields. Now I've
>>got to validate these dates and redisplay them as 8-Digits(With Century).
>>If there is any error in one of these dates I'm setting on the appropriate
>>ERRMSG indicator.

<SNIP>

>>      If I've got to update the values in the date fields in display which
>>aren't having errors what am I supposed to do.
>>      This may be silly but anyway please help me out...
>>TIA
>>Regards,
>>Prakash.

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