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Ronnie

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1/6/2014 3:22 PM

Is there another area in LID where things are defined for programs inside of LID?

We have a custom program an ex employee wrote, but are finding lines that say for example PERFORM 780-DISPLAY-MESSAGE

but when you look in the program you dont see this defined anywhere. Is there something I am missing? I have looked all in the program...all the options, the working storage, etc etc etc.

Thoughts?

Donna Wirt

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1/6/2014 4:21 PM

That code is pulled in when the program is compiled.

Run 'bldsh' for your program and a .cbl will be created. You will see the actual 780-DISPLAY-MESSAGE code.

Woozy

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1/6/2014 4:26 PM

Hi Ronnie,

This is a call to an external library. It isn't included directly in your program code, but it is automatically included in the compiled code. If you do a "lawcmp -D prodline syscode program" it will create a new file in the source directly named {program code}.cbl (i.e. HR11.cbl) that lists the full compile code listing. If you look in that file, you will find the code for 780-DISPLAY-MSG".

In this case, you could also look in the "Doc for Developers: Lawson 4GL Application Program Interfaces" document. It describes most of the delivered functions (like this one) that can be called from within a program. FYI - the "780-DISPLAY-MSG" function "gets and displays an error message for errors associated with application program processing. Before entry, the caller sets the inputs in CRTWS. The error message (CRT-MESSAGE), as built, is left in CRTWS after displaying." Details of inputs/outputs/useage are included in the above document.

Good Luck!

Kelly