RE: Keyword on DSPF entry field

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nelson Smith wrote:

>We need to be able to prevent users from
>tabbing or arrowing out of a numeric
>field without first doing a field exit.
>There must be some standard way of
>preventing this error.

Alas there's no technological means of preventing this error on the 5250.
That's how the hardware works.  You can and should be validity checking the
incoming data. so it the user cursors her way out of a quantity field that
should be 1 but really is 10000000 your program can flag that and tell her
to check that number.

Basically this is a user error, and needs to be treated as such.  If the
user insists on the slowest, most inefficient means of navigating the green
screen then your code will have to pick up the slack where management has
failed.

Another 5250 route is to change all the fields to character and perform
internal right-adjust/validation.    Not my cup of tea, nor yours I bet.

Sorry guy,
  --buck

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