Handling Constraints Revisited
March 31, 2015 Paul Tuohy
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I recently had an email from Doug, who was making use of some code I had published way back in February 2010 in my article Handling Constraint Violations in RPG. The article discussed how to trap a constraint violation caused by a WRITE/UPDATE/DELETE operation and, more importantly, how to determine the name of the constraint that caused the violation. Doug had come up with an instance where my code was not working! After going through the usual stages of denial, anger, and some expensive therapy, I read the rest of the email. Doug’s code worked fine with an RPG |