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Effects of Automatic Editing on Flow of Control

Runtime flow of control is altered when the automatic editing capability of the DC/UCF mapping facility encounters input edit errors on mapin:

Response Process Selected

If a response process is selected, the outcome depends on whether the Execute on edit errors option for the response is selected:

• When it is selected, the response process is executed.
• When it is not selected, the response process is not executed. The next event depends on the control key pressed by the user:
  • If the user presses [Clear] or [PA1], the CA ADS runtime system passes control using the sysgen-defined assignment for the key. This means that it overrides the application-defined assignment (if any) for the key.

    Note: Required fields are always marked in error when the user presses [Clear] or any PA key.

  • If the user presses any other control key, the runtime system redisplays the map, with edit errors.

System Function Selected

If a system function, except RETURN or TOP, is selected, the function is executed.

Any Other Application Function

If any other application function, including RETURN or TOP is selected, the map is redisplayed with edit errors.

Considerations

Under certain circumstances, a dialog response process is selected even though the user has selected an application function, as indicated in diagram above. In these cases, the Execute on edit errors option of the selected response process determines whether the map with errors is redisplayed. Circumstances under which a response process is selected are as follows:

• The dialog has a response process associated with the ENTER key and the user selects a nonimmediately executable function (POP, POPTOP, RETURN, TOP, or QUIT). The ENTER response process is selected.
• The user selects a nonimmediately executable function and the control key pressed or response name specified by the user is the same as a control key or a response field value associated with a response process. The response process is selected.

More information:

CA ADS Dialog Compiler (ADSC)