Re: Display File DDS question

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think you can do what you want at the display file level.  You will
need to pass control to the program, which is much more expensive from a
CPU effort perspective.

Al

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I'm currently looking through the DDS manual, trying to
work out a way for a 2-character alphanumeric field to
accept "A", "C", "X", or a digit from 1 to 9 (in either
column, with the other column blank), or any 2-digit
number from "01" to "99", and reject any other entry.
Preferably doing all the validation within the display
file.

I noticed that the "VALUES" keyword can only accommodate
100 values, and that wouldn't be enough to cover every
valid value individually.

Can anybody suggest something I may be overlooking? Or
tell me outright that it's impossible, and that I need to
do the validation in the program?

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