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nubi
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Hi all,

im wondering if there is a way to get the error messages to default to the full description version instead of the light decsription version.

I know none of the error message numbers by heart and find many of the light descripotions particularly unhelpful- therefore whenever i get an error message i have to go back into my code and enter:

? [Error Number]

so i can get a full description when i rerun it. Its very frustrating so am hoping there is a way, like SET TITLES=OFF , i can get the full description as default.

Anyone know?

also i had a bug yesterday where i had mispelled the

ENGINE SQLORA DEFAULT_CONNECTION

Command and rather than it throwing up an error it just used the connection for the domain i was in.

It really threw me and i spent quite a bit of time trying looking for something in the intended domain when it was actually using the default domain- had it told me i had got the connection syntax wrong i woiuldn't have wasted that time.

Anyone experienced this?


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GamP
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Nubi,

As far as I know there is no setting that will always give you the full error message text.
What you could do is to check for an error message using &FOCERRNUM, for example:
-IF &FOCERRNUM NE 0 THEN GOTO ERRMSG;
..
..
..
-ERRMSG
? &FOCERRNUM
-EXIT

As far as the other issue is concerned, I think it depends on the typing error if an error message is issued or not. In your case it must have been a very small typo, but it still resulted in WF taking the default iso whatever you wanted it to take.

Hope this helps ...
Hope this helps ...


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nubi
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-IF &FOCERRNUM NE 0 THEN GOTO ERRMSG;
..
..
..
-ERRMSG
? &FOCERRNUM
-EXIT

Cheers GamP,

ill try and use that code and see what i get.

yes the typo was 'connetcion' instead of 'connection' but i would expect it to throw up an error whether the syntax was wrong or if i had mispelled the value, for example if you type in TABEL FILE instead of TABLE FILE you get an error...

i may raise this as a bug.


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