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Mapin Operations

Automatic editing operates on a single field at a time. Fields for which automatic editing is enabled are evaluated in order of occurrence on the map. Automatic editing evaluates and edits each field, as illustrated in the following figure.

A given automatic editing operation must be completed without errors before automatic editing can advance to the next editing operation for that field. Automatic editing stops editing a field when an input error is detected in the field; the data is not moved to storage.

Automatic editing completes editing for a field in which no input error is detected by performing the following steps:

• The edited data is moved to the CA ADS record buffers or the program variable storage associated with the map
• Automatic editing either begins for the next field to be edited or finishes for the map:
  • Automatic editing begins for the next field on the map to be edited until all designated fields have been evaluated by automatic editing
  • Automatic editing is completed for the map if all fields for which automatic editing is enabled have been edited
• Automatic editing converts alphabetic characters to upper case if TRANSLATE TO UPPER CASE was specified for the field
• Automatic editing removes trailing underscore characters if UNDERSCORE BLANK FIELD was specified for the field