RE: display screen in a program, but not used when program called from batch

You can condition the display file F-spec with an "UPSI" switch, U1-U8.
This has advantages over the user-control (UC) indicator:

1) You don't have to include OPEN/CLOSE stuff for the file in your RPG
prog.  All the display file operations will simply NO-OP.  No writes to
a closed file errors, etc. Less to go wrong.

2) You're going to test for batch/interactive mode in the C/L program
anyway, so all it has to do is set the external indicator on/off via a
SWS(XXXXXXXX) statement.

3) Indicator purists will choke.

-George Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of booth@martinvt.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 20:36
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: display screen in a program, but not used when program called
from batch


I've written an RPGIV program that uses a display file to get
information
if the information is missing from a record.

In one circumstance I wish to schedule the job to run in batch at night.
I
have already ensured the information is not missing, so the display file
will not be needed.   However the batch job fails anyway.

Is that what is supposed to happen, or is there another error I am not
finding?

Is there a way to resolve this issue without writing a second identical
program sans display?

Thank you for your ideas, they are always welcome.

_______________________
Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com

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