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Error-Handling Criteria

What is Error-handling?

Error handling alerts the terminal operator if an input error occurs.

A field is considered to be in error if any of the following conditions exist:

• The input (or the encoded equivalent) does not conform to the internal picture.
• The input does not conform to the external picture.
• Numeric input is truncated on the left (high-order truncation).
• No input is supplied for a required field.
• The input is determined to be invalid, based on the edit table used for the field.
• The input does not match any decoded values in the code table used for the field, and no catchall value is defined for decoded values.
• The input is determined to be in error according to criteria defined by a user-written edit module.

Note: For more information about the use of the automatic editing to establish correct/incorrect input conditions for error handling, see the chapter "Automatic Editing Criteria”.

Note: For more information about the definition and use of user-written edit modules, see the appendix "User-Written Edit Modules".

What Error-handling Criteria can be Defined?

The following table lists the error-handling criteria that can be defined for each map. Each criterion is described separately: