Re: sending an error message back to a user

Two thoughts:  

Could you write a trigger program to validate the dates and attach it to the 
file itself?  Then the old program will have to deal with bad date messages, 
and most likely can.

The other thought is to write a little program that just spins through the file 
checking dates and have it run first, while the job is stilll in interactive 
mode?  That way, at least the batch job won't even start unless the dates are 
all ok.


In <199902101414.JAA27015@lucas.emi.com>, on 02/10/99 
   at 09:10 AM, "David Prowak" <prowakd@emi.com> said:


>(I know, I  know.... The way to handle this is by checking the data
> as it is entered, not after!!  I am creating a program that will create
>a coupon
> book for payments with the due dates coming from a system that has 
> been in production for years.)

>So, what are my options towards sending back a message saying:
>  "Coupon book not created - invalid due date entered"

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