Re: Display file puzzlement

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I removed PUTOVR, OVRATR, and OVRDTA.  Still no RI capability.  With 
the ERRSFL,
though, I guess I can live with it.

John McKee

Quoting Jeff Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx>:

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
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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>:

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> > > 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
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> > >
> > >
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