External File Definition receives Select failed

Products

• MICS Resource Management

Issue/Introduction

After defining a External file definition in MWF 4;2;3;7 a 'select failed' error is received upon exiting this panel.  

Environment

Release:
Component: MACT

Resolution

If you select MWF 4;2;3;7 option 2 - External File Input Routine

by default you get:

 

***************************** Top of Data ***************************

-Warning- The UNDO command is not available until you change 

your edit profile using the command RECOVERY ON. 

-CAUTION- Profile is set to STATS ON. Statistics did not exist for 

this member, but will be generated if data is saved. 

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

/* (C) COPYRIGHT, 1992 LEGENT SOFTWARE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. */

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

/* CHANGE | PROBLEM|MMYY|VENDOR CHANGE DESCRIPTION */

/*--------+--------+----+------------------------------------------*/

/* ACT6000| |0792|MICS6 INITIAL RELEASE, MICS6.0 */

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

/* CHANGE |MMYY|USER CHANGE DESCRIPTION */

/*--------+----+---------------------------------------------------*/

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------*/

/*****************************************************************/ 

/* MICS INSTALLATION ACCOUNTING COMPONENT SAMPLE ROUTINE */ 

/* FOR EXTERNAL FILE CHARGING. THIS SAS ROUTINE MUST BE CODED */ 

/* FOR EACH UNIQUE EXTERNAL FILE. SAMPLE CODING FOLLOWS: */ 

/*****************************************************************/ 

/* INFILE INPUTACT; */ 

/* CURRENT = DATE(); */ 

/* MONTH = MONTH(CURRENT); */ 

/* YEAR = YEAR(CURRENT) -1900; */ 

/* INPUT @1 COSTCTR1 $CHAR4. FIDQUAN1 FIDQUAN2; */ 

/*****************************************************************/ 

/* FIDQUAN1 AND FIDQUAN2 ARE THE CHARGING ELEMENT NAMES THAT */ 

/* ARE TO BE INDICATED WHEN THE UNIQUE CHARGING ELEMENTS ARE */ 

/* SET UP AS PART OF THE CHARGING ELEMENT DEFINITION PROCESS. */ 

/* THE MICS INSTALLATION ACCOUNTING GUIDE HAS ADDITIONAL INFO. */ 

/*****************************************************************/ 

 

Doing nothing to this input routine, results in 'select failed'.

If you remove all of the content and then add it back, then exiting of the panel no longer issues the

'select failed' message.