On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ouch! This sounds like an ISPF question rather than a Rexx > question. Another issue of IBM's unnecessarily treating > ordinary boundary conditions as special. Would VIEW work > better than BROWSE here? Is the data set initialized properly? > > But if you get RC=12, there's no need to TRAP or pre-empt. > simply process the return code. SIGNAL ON ERROR is overkill; > harmful to good coding. I use it sparingly, in sections of > code where I expect no error and have coded no recovery. > > -- gil > Rexx doesn't see the RC=12 unless you first invoke the ISPF service "CONTROL ERRORS RETURN". ISPF's default behaviour is to handle the condition by throwing a Dialog error and terminating your function. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
