Re: Display file format with no response to attention keys

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 15:58 -0800, Peter Dow wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> I did try the original, untouched-and-compiled-on-another-machine program
> and display file, and they worked fine, which narrowed it down to the
> modifications.  One of the analysts discovered that if she filled in one of
> the newly added fields, it worked, which pinpointed the problem.  Actually,
> there were several, but the one causing the described behavior was a
> CHECK(ME) on a conditioned field, which happened to be conditioned by an
> indicator that was used for DSPATR(PC RI) on another field entirely.
Arghh!

> 
> The program (PHRE010) uses all 99 indicators, and the PHDE010D format alone
> uses 65 of them.  Lots of fun. I found another indicator that was only used
> in one place on another format, and was based on a flag field so I could set
> it just before the EXFMT and reuse for my purposes on PHDE010D.
I wanted to rewrite that thing in 88 (!) but our team was not allowed
to.  After all, it was only six or seven years old at that time.

> 
> Btw, SMS is actually slowly converting them all to RPGLE, so things aren't
> all bad.
That one needs it -- badly.  Although it is amazing that it's going on
twenty five years old and it still gets the job done.

> 
> Thanks for the ideas!
Glad to hear you got it working.  My advice has always been: Never
modify PHRE010.

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Regards,
Rich

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