1) How to declare a file?
2) How to define a display file?
3) How to monitor error messages in RPG?
4) How to find the attributes for subfiles? and what is the
DDS for subfiles?

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1) How to declare a file? 2) How to define a display file? 3) How to monitor error messages in RPG..

Answer / mehul

Answer to 3)
Method 1:

To moniter Error in RPG make use of
MONITIOR
.....
ON-ERROR <some error number>

ENDMON

u can place a subroutine , procedure etc under this to
handle the error for the following

Method 2:

Activate the Error Indicator, for the field you want to
place the error handling
if any error occurs for that field %error is SETON, and u
can use this indicator to take action accordingly

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1) How to declare a file? 2) How to define a display file? 3) How to monitor error messages in RPG..

Answer / madhu

1Ans).DCL VAR(&A) TYPE(*DEC) VALUE(54)
2ans). DCLF FILE(LIBNAME/FILENAME) RCDFMT(SCREEN NAME)
3Ans.) In FREE FORMAT WE ARE USING MONITOR AND END-MON,THE
CODE LIKE MONITOR;
--------
ON-ERROR(FILE NAME/PGM NAME);
---------
END-MON;
AND ALSO IN RPG/400 WE ARE USING *PSSR SUBROTEN WE CAN TRAP
THE ERRORS
AND ALSO WE R USING FILE INFORMATION DATASTRCTERS, PROGRAM
STATUS DATA STRUCTERS WE CAN TRAP THE ERRORS
4Ans)in subfile we can find out varibles and varibles
lengths in subfile record format key word.

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