I am creating and writing a dictionary file record within in a program. When I attempt to write a dictionary record with an M in position 4 of the record the system displays the error message "Error compiling protection module." If I change the M to an S the record is saved correctly as a single value entry.

It appears some other value in the record is causing the problem as the M I believe is correct for defining a multivalue field.

The field is defined as folows:

F

5  (Fifth field in file)

Counter  (Name of field)

M   (Indicates multivalue)

L  (Left justified)

(10] 10 (Field length)

Any help to resolve my problem would be appreciated.

Mark,

Justification should be moved from field 7 (output format) to field 9.

HTH

Bill

Thanks Bill - I will give it a try.

Actually, FWIW, I just tried to "duplicate" your scenario here and didn't see an error message, i.e., when I defined a dictionary item as "M" (multivalue).

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InN my original message I indicated the "writing dictionary record" problem only occured when defining a Multivalued field. This was true, however,the cause of the problem was traced to the the multivalue routine which did not assign a record position to the record prior to writing the dict record. Once this was corrected the dict record was written correctly.

Thanks for your help.

InN my original message I indicated the "writing dictionary record" problem only occured when defining a Multivalued field. This was true, however,the cause of the problem was traced to the the multivalue routine which did not assign a record position to the record prior to writing the dict record. Once this was corrected the dict record was written correctly.

Thanks for your help.

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