Re: Display file puzzlement

Remove the PUTOVR, OVRATR and DSPATR keywords.
When you are using ERRMSG / ERRMSGID you do not need them.
The PUTOVR prevents the screen from being updated with the new buffer contents.
The ERRMSG keyword(s) will handle the DSPATR(PC RI) function.

Hope this helps.

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
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----- Original Message ----
From: John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:17:08 AM
Subject: Re: Display file puzzlement

Back on topic (sort of):

I have been working with ERRSFL, and it is indeed extremely cool. But,
I am not
getting the attributes changed on the fields with errors.

Unfortunately, I do not have access to the email that Simon posted with the
required keywords. However, I am at the computer now, and here are the
keywords I am using and where:

Record level, no conditioning indicator, PUTOVR
Field level, no conditioning indicator, OVRATR
Field level conditioning indicator line by itself and immediately below it
letter O conditioning indicator, DSPATR(RI HI PC)

Cursor does get positioned, but neither RI or HI work. I am assuming that the
only reason that PC appears to work is due to ERRMSG processing.

I have been looking at the infocenter exaxple page, here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzakc/rzakcmst76.htm

and I don't see why what I am doing does not work. This is definitely not
critical. Or required. But, it is bugging me. Am I missing a keyword
somewhere?

John McKee


Quoting Dave McKenzie <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

That was "amazing" Grace Hopper:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_hopper

who also found the first computer bug (a moth).

--Dave

Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Have heard it said - it's better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission!!

At 07:53 AM 4/21/2008, you wrote:

John McKee wrote:

Nobody there read any manuals at all. It was discouraged by
the nitwit "manager". Wastes too much time.

John McKee

Reminds me of the "manager" I had in '74 or '75. I had just read some
articles about some, relatively, new concepts - structured programming
and top-down design. Maintenance was just starting on a new system that
a lot of novice programmers (including moi) had programmed, and it was a
mess. So I proposed studying and then using these techniques to develop
more maintainable programs. But the boss said we had too much backlog
to waste our time on such nonsense (unproven concepts in his mind). The
lead programmer and I just went ahead and did it anyway. The boss was
clueless.


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