Re: Display file format with no response to attention keys

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:44 -0800, Peter Dow wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> So did I, way back when on a Sys38.
Yeah?  Cool.  I worked for them 85-92 or so, so some as ASI, some as
GTE.  Never worked for SMS or Siemens.
> 
> It was compiled on the customer's machine, after they made custom
> modifications to it.  In order to use SDA to make those custom
> modifications, they had to change the %%WB comments to XXWB comments.
> That's the only unusual thing I know of.  I haven't used the webfacing
> product yet, so I'm not sure how those comments are supposed to interact
> with the A-specs.  Presumably not at all when it's being compiled as a
> display file.
Right, presumably not.  Some more permutations to try:

Original code before the mods works? (presumably)

New DSPF and old DSPF have same keywords (RSTDSP, DFRWRT etc)?

New RPG and old RPG created the same, more of an issue for ILE then RPG
III style code.

Recomipled original code (into a test library) on the same machine
works?

New code with comments stripped works?  Can't imagine it should do
anything...

A test RPG program that just calls the non-working format works?

Custom code restored onto a test machine works?

Custom code compiled onto a test machine works?

Have you tried it on different kinds of workstations?  PC's running
client access?  Mochasoft or Rhumba?

If I still can't get it to work, I would try to strip it down to the
smallest amount of code that still fails, then contact IBM.   A bit of a
challenge on that particular program, I know.


> 
> SDA test mode works fine, but only in the limited sense that I don't know
> what combination of indicators to use that might replicate the problem.
You can easily find out.  Since you are running it in debug, check the
*IN array.

Good Luck, and let us know how it turns out.
--
Regards,
Rich

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