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ironponygrl · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:57 am Post subject:

you fellows are so patient with beginners. there is a special place in heaven for you.

t-bonham@scc.net · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:53 pm Post subject:

The proper way to avoid S0C7 errors is to not allow 'junk' to be stored in your data files in the first place. Edit the input, and if it is junk, than reject it rather than put junk into your data files.

In the end, that is much easier for a system: there are usually only a few input programs, but many more processing & reporting programs. If you allow junk data to get into your data files, every one of the processing & reporting programs will have to have checks written in to catch the junk data before using it. If you have tight edits on the input to reject junk, than all the many programs after that which use the data can skip such testin