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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Sterling Transformation Extender
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 9, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

enhanced PARSE function

In order to use the new PARSE function as a replacement for the old RUN(submap) constructs, the PARSE function should have similar behavior as RUN(submap). This essentially requires 2 enhancements:

1.) We need to pass arguments to PARSE like "-F21 -Z28", so that PARSE will use the same error handling as our current RUN(submaps). Overriding the trace settings is also used very often, e.g. "-TIC1", as well as specifying audit settings like "-ADEU=audits" and workspace parameters like "-P512:512". Basically PARSE should be able to handle all these parameters.

2.) PARSE should throw errors and set LASTERRORMSG as well as LASTERRORCODE, so that we can use it in a VALID(PARSE(), FAIL()) construct.
DeveloperWorks ID DW_ID65753
RTC ID RTC_ID455547
Link to original RFE http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=65753
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 21, 2020

    This request is beyond the scope of what the PARSE function is designed to offer.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 19, 2020

    Upon code review, we believe the VALID function should return the needed response. Can step through your use case here? What do you consider a failure? Input Invalid should show up int he VALID function. Input Valid, but unknown data found, would likely not.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2018

    Hi Luke. No, PARSE does not throw errors. The only way to check if PARSE worked successfully is to check if a mandatory field in the target is NONE.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2018

    1) is being investigated
    2) This function was first released in WTX 8.4.1 and should work as identified above.

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