Re: Handling zeroes typed by user on DDS screen

I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to have decimal field on dds screen which shows nothing(blanks) on it but if user type 0(zero), it will stay there after pressing enter. With EDTCDE(4), field is empty because of zero supression but if I will type 0 there, it will disappear after pressing enter and I would like it to stay if user typed it there.
It is not possible to achieve that result with any of Edit Codes or Edit Words. Unfortunately, option indicator can't be used on both EDTCDE and EDTWRD.

I wanted to avoid making this field character and later validation char to valid decimal format.

Personally, I think having the field defined as character and then
doing the extra processing in your RPG program is the most obvious and
straightforward method to do what you are asking. I understand that
this is annoying, but I think this way makes it clear what you are
trying to do.

Since you had the idea to put indicators on EDTCDE or EDTWRD (which
you found out isn't allowed), you might try adjusting that idea so
that you have indicators on entire fields, which happen to be at the
same place (exactly overlapping) on the screen. You can then use
different EDTCDE values (or whatever) on those different fields.

John Y.