Well, we "successfully" upgraded our system from 6.0
to 7.5 yesterday.  We discovered some VPlus "features"
that bit us...

1)  We had some programs that call "VTURNOFF" and
"VTURNON".  The parameters for VTURNON are "comarea"
and "termfile".  These programs ran successfully under
6.0 just using the "comarea" parameter; however, under
7.5 these programs fail.

2)  We have several forms that use the following field
edits for fields that may or may not be numeric:

if match d* then
   justify right
   fill leading "0"

Under 6.0 this functioned as expected; that is, if the
field contained only digits, it would be
right-justified and zero-filled.  Under 7.5, if the
field was empty, it would also match d* and the edit
was applied.  This caused some of our programs to act
very oddly and it was quite difficult to find the bug.

In order to fix it I had to change the edit to the
following:

if ne $empty then
   if match d* then
      justify right
      fill leading "0"



Jim Phillips




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