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Conference acadmy::tpas_notes

Title:	Transfer Price Administration System
Notice:	Conference has moved to ACADMY::TPAS_NOTES
Moderator:	ACADMY::MAGNI

Created:	Wed Jul 01 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Mar 21 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	102
Total number of notes:	459

25.0. "Why don't you pass Errors as VMS does ?" by KBOMFG::BRANDT () Wed Feb 17 1993 02:52

May be someone could enlightn me
  why do you drive all sites to fiddle around with strings,
  -- even worse with varying length strings  !!!
  just to find out what kind of error occurred.
  Life would be much easier if you in addition pass the condition value as
  a longword. So I could use this status to compare and base actions on.
  The text finally could be used to be dumped where needed.

-Karl

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
25.1	Input Taken - Any code to share ?	AWARD::MAGNI	IM&T - 223-9837	`Wed Feb 17 1993 14:14`	28
	Karl, The reason we opted to return only Fatal and Success errors as a text string was so the SYS$GETMSG call and translation would have to done by the sites. You should not have to fiddle with strings as a fatal will not send back a transfer price and some type of manual intervention will be needed to correct the action. As release 1 is complete - we will take your input for sending the error code longword back and include it for release 2. Sites will then have the option to either do the coding for the translation or take the following format and code from that. 05 TPAS_TRANS_STATUS. 10 TPAS_TRANS_FACILITY_MSG PIC X(6). 10 TPAS_TRANS_DASH1 PIC X(1) VALUE "-". 10 TPAS_TRANS_PART_STATUS_CODE PIC X(1). 10 TPAS_TRANS_DASH2 PIC X(1) VALUE "-". 10 TPAS_TRANS_ERROR_MESSAGE PIC X(71). The Facility_msg will vary from %APPIX or %SPWY. And of course the Error_message will vary in length due to the different text. But the STATUS_CODE will always be 1 character an F or an S. Maybe AYR, KAO or one of the other sites has done some coding around this and could share their code with everyone ? Lois M.
25.2	Thanks , the answer was quick, but	KBOMFG::BRANDT		`Thu Feb 18 1993 09:47`	11
	as you state in 25.1 the facility code may vary between %APPIX %SPWY I'm afraid your TPAS_TRANS_FACILITY_MSG will vary between 6 and 5 char as well and therefore the TPAS_TRANS_PART_STATUS_CODE will have different positions too. -Karl
25.3	we do the string manipulation to account for this	AWARD::MAGNI	IM&T - 223-9837	`Thu Feb 18 1993 14:47`	6
	Karl, We do string manipulation on the complete returned error message so that the STATUS-CODE (F or S) will always be in the STTAUS_CODE field. We found the SPDY during testing and changed to do string manipulation to address this.