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Conference rocks::dec_edi

Title:	DEC/EDI
Notice:	DEC/EDI V2.1 - see note 2002
Moderator:	METSYS::BABER

Created:	Wed Jun 06 1990
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3150
Total number of notes:	13466

3013.0. "No output from Map without generating Soft Error?" by GENIE::qmodo.ebo.dec.com::genie::munt (Colin Munt) Fri Feb 14 1997 11:32

I need to program a map such that some of the documents in the Application 
File generate no corresponding EDIFACT documents. This can be done with 
the $ERROR function which generates a Soft Error. Is there any other way of 
doing with without generating an error?

Thanks
...colin

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3013.1		SYSTEM::newdial_7.reo.dec.com::JOHNSON	Richard Johnson , http://samedi.reo.dec.com	`Fri Feb 14 1997 16:32`	5
	Colin You could put a condition in each map part. Richard
3013.2		GENIE::qmodo.ebo.dec.com::genie::munt	Colin Munt	`Mon Feb 17 1997 09:36`	28
	Richard, Thanks for your suggestion. The Application File I am trying to map looks something like this: - Header Record (generates BGM segment) - Detail Record (generate NAD segments) ... can repeat theoretically 9999 times If the Detail Records contain no records of a certain type then the whole EDIFACT document should be discarded. The way I have implemented this so far is to increment a counter when generating the NAD segment (There is a condition on this map to only handle the relevant record type.) In the summary section the counter is tested. If zero then a Soft Error ($ERROR) is generated and the EDIFACT document is not created. If I was to build a check into the Map for BGM then this would mean writing a FOR loop from 1 to 9999 as I can see no way of getting the number of Detail Records without using a counter and the BGM is generated before the NAD. ...colin I don't see how I could easily implement this though. The record type in question can theoretically repeat 9999 times. I considered using FOR loops but with an end value of 9999 this wouldn't be very efficient.