RE: Strange effect of conditioning DSPF fields

["Jonathan Mason" <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Francis

Yes, I tried it on the line immediately after the REFFLD and also tried
defining the field directly and putting it on the same line as the field,
but neither made any difference.

Thanks 

Jonathan


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lapeyre, Francis
Sent: 10 July 2007 15:13
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Strange effect of conditioning DSPF fields

Have you tried moving that CHECK(LC) line to just after the field name?
Maybe *IN33 is carrying over the conditioning from the DSPATR(PC) line.

I always put the unconditional stuff first.


     A            FLD235        23A  O  9  4TEXT('Entry for Log . . . .
.')
     A                                      MSGID(CM0 0058 AUKMSGF)
     A                                  9 28'.'
     A            COMMENT   R        B  9 30REFFLD(TEXT)
     A                                      CHECK(LC)
     A N33                                  COLOR(WHT)
     A  33                                  COLOR(RED)
     A  33                                  DSPATR(PC)

Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mason
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:41 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Strange effect of conditioning DSPF fields

I've been having a problem today with trying to enable lower case entry
for
a field on a display file, where no matter what I did nothing seemed to
work.  The issue appears to be that the next field in the DDS is
conditioned
by an indicator, but I don't understand why that should have an effect
on
the previous field.

For example, in the sample DDS below the COMMENT field doesn't allow
lower
case entry even though CHECK(LC) is defined.


     A            FLD235        23A  O  9  4TEXT('Entry for Log . . . .
.')

     A                                      MSGID(CM0 0058 AUKMSGF)

     A                                  9 28'.'

     A            COMMENT   R        B  9 30REFFLD(TEXT)

     A N33                                  COLOR(WHT)

     A  33                                  COLOR(RED)

     A  33                                  DSPATR(PC)

     A                                      CHECK(LC)

     A*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     A     51     FLD602        60A  O 11  2TEXT('Objects selected for
Add')

     A                                      MSGID(CM4 0074 AUKMSGF)

     A                                      COLOR(BLU)

     A*
------------------------------------------------------------------------

However, if I add the following line between the CHECK(LC) and the
definition for FLD602, lower case works.

     A                                  9 78' '


Does anybody know why this effect happens?

Thanks

Jonathan