RE: Handling zeroes typed by user on DDS screen

Hi John,

I'm more than a little behind in my email. Can you declare it as a character
field and use the keyboard shift D (digits only)? You might need CHECK(RB)
or another option to properly align the value, but it should eliminate a lot
of internal code.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international
www.TheWay.org

message: 1
date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:01:55 -0400
from: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: 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.