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In the IT editor, if I go to a particular line -- let's say the first line in a routine/method -- is there a way to have the line load at the top of the display? The line in question loads partway down the screen, and I often have to scroll down to see the entirety of a routine that I might not need to if that first line appeared at the top. (By the way, we use line numbers in our installation.)

Just wondering if there's a way, for efficiency's sake. Thanks in advance!

Paula McKeever
CAI Software LLC

Greetings. The Data Dictionary Update pgm *dict/dd_updt: it looks as though it returns error descriptions, not error numbers. If one's code happens to call it, will checking the err variable immediately upon returning from the call contain the error number associated with the returned message?

Thanks in advance.

Paula McKeever
CAI Software LLC

(using PxPlus 2020, Windows server)
Greetings. This concerns the Security property on panels. There are some particular circumstances, as follows:

* Panel X with multi-line Y and dropbox Z, initially disabled
* Panel X has several tabs; let's call them X.1 and X.2
* Panel (tab) X.1 Security has, let's say...
   * Full access for Classification MGR
   * View-only access for Classification USER (we need that view access so that the tab always draws for everyone; everyone has at minimum the USER classification assigned to them)
* The situation in which we encountered this was a file maintenance type panel, but I confirmed this happens with a panel with tabs that was not generated as FM

So if a MGR launches the panel, the two objects are initially disabled as expected. If they then navigate to the first record in the file, that executes a process that enables the objects, because for a MGR, they should be enabled.

But for a USER, we expect the objects to remain disabled, and in fact for multi-line Y, the panel Security keeps it disabled. But dropbox Z enables, and that is not the behavior we expected. (This also happens when we try assigning the security to dropbox Z itself)

I look forward to your feedback.

Paula McKeever
CAI Software LLC

I see that in PxP 2021 (v 18.20), when I do a panel compare, the LIBCREP panel now has a visual class assigned to the listbox. I'm guessing that's what changed the listbox font from a fixed font to a proportional font, so now the output no longer lines up visually. We're used to the fixed font because that way, we can more easily identify differences in the compares.

Was there a reason the font was changed for v 18, and if one were to remove the visual class from that listbox, would that mess things up?

Thanks!
Paula McKeever
CAI Software LLC

Greetings. We have a client that upgraded to PxPlus 2019 Update 2 a few months ago. Before their upgrade, we had been successfully using data mirroring to push their data to a SQL server. We have an AR file for them where the key is Customer + Invoice Number + Invoice Type. Invoice Type is a single character element, and it can be a blank space. (In fact, it frequently is; the ones with alphanum in it are less common.)

When the record is new, the mirroring/insert works fine, for any invoice record.
But when it is updating an existing record, the mirroring/update does not result in the table getting the updated data...if the record's Invoice Type is a blank. If the Type has an alphanum in it, it successfully updates the SQL table.

We have not gotten to the point yet of trying to step through it because of the complexity and the timeframe to dig down into it. And I'm not sure if watching our PxPlus command of write(channel) will tell us anything. Does this information trigger any sort of "aha!" explanation? TIA.

Greetings all; hope this finds everyone well during this time.

A question re: password-protected (PP) data files. We have a utility that runs through our data files, and it's supposed to run unattended, no interaction until it completes. As it loops through the files, the code attempts an open input on each (primarily to determine if it exists). With the pwd protection on a file(s), it now pops the prompt for the pwd if the file in question is PP. See attached.

So the question is: can we somehow predetermine that it is PP without the user interaction. The PxPlus panel in question, in the pgm _ext\system\get_pswd, launches automatically. I couldn't see a way to trap it before the panel displays. If a file is PP, we'll skip it.

TIA!

Paula McKeever
CAI Software LLC

Using PxPlus 15.10. There appears to be a limit to the number of characters in a line that the *patch utility will apply. We use *patch constantly, and it's been recently discovered that if a line is of a certain long length, the patch utility will put only a certain number of characters in. The utility will not report there being a problem (i.e. no message), and eventually we discover that our patched program has a syntax error because the line is chopped short. We're not sure if it's always been this way and we're only noticing it now, or if it's a recent development.

There's no documentation about the *patch utility, and the program is password protected.

Thanks in advance!

Hello! Using PxP 15.10. What's the way to find out the name of the embedded I/O pgm in a data file? We have a file that must have had an embedded I/O prgram updated into it, and then it was removed from the DD. But the physical file itself appears to still have the reference to it, and I'm guessing the program no longer exists b/c I'm getting an error 121 when I pull up the DD entry for the file. Thanks in advance.

Paula McKeever
CAI Software