RECORD CONTAINS CRITICAL ERRORS generating an ADS dialog
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Issue/Introduction
When generating a dialog using ADSC, a work record contains error "RECORD CONTAINS CRITICAL ERRORS", however a display of the record in IDD only contains DC601125/DC601126/DC601127 warnings and no critical or serious errors. Why the discrepancy?
Environment
Release: All supported releases.
Component: ADS.
Resolution
Whenever a record in IDD contains the error message:
RECORD CONTAINS CRITICAL ERRORS
search for additional warning messages. Display the record as syntax and with COBOL to find the cause for the RECORD CONTAINS CRITICAL ERRORS message.
DIS RECORD record-name AS SYN WITH COBOL
In this case, the record also contained DC601127, DC601125 and DC601126 warning messages:
DC601127 VALUE CLAUSE SPECIFIED FOR RECORD ELEMENT FIL 0010DC601127 WITH OR UNDER AN OCCURS
DC601125 RECORD ELEMENT FILLER REDEFINES A RECORD ELEMENT CONTAINING AN OCCURS CLAUSEDC601125 RECORD ELEMENT record-name REDEFINES A RECORD ELEMENT CONTAINING AN OCCURS CLAUSE
DC601126 LENGTH OF RECORD ELEMENT record-name EXCEEDS LENGTH OF REDEFINED RECORD ELEMENT
The IDD record is flagged as containing Critical Errors only for certain types of compilers, such as the Mapping or Schema Compilers and not when using the COBOL compiler. Although the DC601125/DC601126 are warning messages and not critical or serious errors, they indicate an error in the record definition and therefore they should be corrected before attempting to generate ADS dialog.
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