Re: *DATE on DSPF program

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

 Thanks for the explanation.
 
At 12:50 PM 9/17/98 CDT, you wrote:

> What is happening is that the ENTER key is causing the invalid
>date to be loaded into the WB, the error is being reported, the CA key
>is being used to bypass entry, and the WB (in it's last used invalid
>state) is being returned to the RPG program.  RPG runtime appears to be
>validating the Date field contents and is signalling the RNX0112.  Note
>that the very same thing (except for the RNX0112) occurs with VALUE
>DDS checking.  If a VALUES('A' 'B' 'C') is defined and the user enters
>"E", ENTER, CA then the RPG program does indeed get 'E' returned (but
>as there is no datatype error you don't get an explicit error message).

 I was under the impression that CAxx doesn't return the screen data to the
program.  Is this incorrect?

 -mark

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