Re: Resetting %EOF

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Cozzi wrote:
>
>
> I agree with that, but if I wanted to check for a time-out on a
> READ/WAIT situation, I could just check %STATUS regardless of whether or
> not I used  READ(E). That's what I'm hearing you tell me. And that's
> good news.
> I don't know how many emails I get with people that don't use a %ERROR
> nest with nessted %STATUS and their %ERROR is always ZERO even when an
> error occurs... Because they forgot to code the un-intuitive (E)
> extender. So I can now just teach them to check for %STATUS values
> instead of (E) combined with %ERROR...
>

Bob, you still need the (E) extender for the following:
  a. to get %STATUS reset to zero
  b. to get the error handled.  If no (E), you will get an inquiry
message or
     go to your INFSR for any errors besides EOF and record-not-found.