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How an Application Should Test the Response Code

It is recommended that applications initialize the error number portion of the full response code, or the 2-byte response code depending on the Service, to a value of ’90’ prior to a Call to SSA-NAME3.

This allows the condition to be detected where SSA-NAME3 was Called, but was either not properly invoked or did not get a chance to set the response code before returning. SSA-NAME3 will never itself use a value of ’90’, although it does use values in the range ’91’ to ’99’.

On return from a Call to SSA-NAME3, the program should check the error number, or the 2-byte response code. If it is ’00’, then it can be assured the Call to the Service was successful and the application may continue processing. If a value greater than or equal to ’90’ is found, this is a fatal error and the program should be aborted.

An error number greater than or equal to ’90’ will not have set the rest of the response code, so there is no point in checking the severity for these cases.

If the error number is not ’00’ and it is not greater than or equal to ’90’, then the application should check the severity of the response code. If the severity is greater than or equal to ’2’, then the program should abort. If the severity is ’1’, the program may elect to continue processing, or to abort depending on the response code. It may also elect to continue processing for some response codes and abort for others.

For example, an error number of ’02’ with a severity of ’1’ usually means that a name has no valid components after processing from which to build a key or do matching. An error number of ’32’ with a severity of ’1’ usually means that one or more fields being matched has a null value.

Remember, if the application does abort, the full response code should be saved to a file, displayed to a screen, or printed to allow proper debugging.

Following is sample pseudo code for interrogating a response-code.


VARIABLE DECLARATIONS.
   . . . .
   SSA-NAME3-RESPONSE-CODE           CHAR 20
   REDEFINE SSA-NAME3-RESPONSE-CODE
   SSA-NAME3-ERROR-NUMBER            CHAR 2
   SSA-NAME3-ERROR-REASON            CHAR 2
   SSA-NAME3-ERROR-MODULE            CHAR 2
   SSA-NAME3-ERROR-SEVERITY          CHAR 1
   SSA-NAME3-ERROR-UNUSED            CHAR 3
   SSA-NAME3-SECONDARY-RESPONSE-CODE CHAR 10
. . .
SSA-NAME3-WORK-AREA                  CHAR 99999
REDEFINE SSA-NAME3-WORK-AREA
   SSA-NAME3-WORK-FIRST              CHAR 42
   SSA-NAME3-EXTENDED-RC             CHAR 20
. . . .
MAIN CODE.
. . . .
MOVE ’90’ TO SSA-NAME3-ERROR-NUMBER

CALL ’N3SGUS’ USING SSA-NAME3-SERVICE,
                    SSA-NAME3-RESPONSE-CODE,
                    . . . .

IF SSA-NAME3-ERROR-NUMBER NOT = ’00’
   IF SSA-NAME3-ERROR-NUMBER >= ’90’
      PERFORM SSA-NAME3-ERROR-ABORT
END-IF
MOVE SSA-NAME3-EXTENDED-RC TO SSA-NAME3-RESPONSE-CODE

The above line is only required if the Service does not use the 20-byte Response-code field in its parameter list.


IF SSA-NAME3-ERROR-SEVERITY >= ’2’
   PERFORM SSA-NAME3-ERROR-ABORT
END-IF
IF SSA-NAME3-ERROR-SEVERITY = ’1’
    PERFORM SSA-NAME3-WARNING-PRINT
END-IF
END-IF
. . . .

SSA-NAME3-ERROR-ABORT.
   PRINT ’\ssaproduct{} RESPONSE CODE: ’ SSA-NAME3-RESPONSE-CODE
   ABORT

SSA-NAME3-WARNING-PRINT
   PRINT ’\ssaproduct{} RESPONSE CODE: ’ SSA-NAME3-RESPONSE-CODE
   CONTINUE

The

SSA-NAME3-WARNING-PRINT

function may be something to do during the testing stages of an application. If it is established that a certain warning can be ignored, then the appropriate code can be put into the response code checking. For example,


IF SSA-NAME3-ERROR-SEVERITY = ’1’
   IF SSA-NAME3-ERROR-NUMBER = ’02’ OR ’32’
      CONTINUE
   ELSE
      PERFORM SSA-NAME3-WARNING-PRINT
   END-IF
END-IF

In the above example,

SSA-NAME3-EXTENDED-RC

is always moved into

SSA-NAME3-RESPONSE-CODE

regardless of the Service. This simply makes the code more standard, as even the Services which use the full response code in the parameter list have the full response code repeated in the Work-area.

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