Re: Overflow values

[Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>what is that GOTO :)))))? Oh, wait, rings a bell, 
>Commodore C-64 and these high school days, BASIC & puberty. 

I wanted a generic example of how you could fit error handling
into any RPG program, even S/36 style.  One could easily
use EXSR instead.

>Seriously, this is a good experimental example, but I 
>think IBM should give us something better to trick a 
>cycle in the real world.

It has been my experience that very few shops use any
error handling at all.  Typically, I have seen *PSSR,
DUMP ENDSR *CANCL, to "gracefully" exit the program.

Perhaps if more people used error handling, they'd
realise the deficiencies in the current setup and then
complain to IBM.  I have a suspicion that IBM hasn't
heard many complaints in this area, and so have no
motivation to fix it.

Buck Calabro
CommSoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net


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