Re: Rhyme nor reason

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*DING DING DING DING DING DING DING*
Winner, winner winner!  We have us a winner!

Wow!  Congratulations, Douglas and John!  You figured it
out!

What an undocumented "feature", wow.  Well, now I know
why one user could and why one user couldn't.  I just created
a display file utility for the file, and I could browse it fine.  Then
when I did an UPDDTA on the file, I could browse it fine.  Even
though I wasn't using the display file utility.

Like you said, it must set a default in the user profile telling DFU to
ignore decimal data errors, and it kept this default even when not
using an explicit DFU program.

Wow, mystery solved.  Okay, so now I should create a DFU program
with my account Jim and tell it NOT to ignore decimal data errors.  That
way when I do a UPDDTA I can see if there are errors.

Thanks!!!

Everyone's help on this is much appreciated.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Douglas Handy wrote:

> John,
>
> >I guess the answer is that your default for UPDDTA is ignore dec data
> >error and the others aren't
> >
> >Of course I have no idea how to set this but I am sure somebody on this
> >list does.
>
> This is the most plausible explanation I've seen yet.  When you create
> a DFU program which is to be saved (using STRDFU not UPDDTA), one of
> the options is "Suppress errors" Y or N.  The default seems to be the
> last value specified by the user for the last DFU program
> created/changed.
>
> So perhaps UPDTA picks up the same default based on the user profile,
> and the last saved DFU program had specified suppress errors = Y.
>
> Jim--
>
> Try STRDFU, then create a DFU for any file you want.  See if the
> default shows up as Y or N for suppress errors.  I'm guessing Y.
> Change it to N and create a DFU program.  Delete the DFU program.
>
> Rerun your UPDDTA, and see if you now get the same errors as everybody
> else.

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