Pathmaker Reference Manual

Requester Definition Screen
Pathmaker Screens
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Any changes to the DDL of the reference objects used in the requester are not
reflected in the requester. For example, if you add fields to a reference object, the
new fields do not get added to the screen.
Modified Screen
Displays Y or N:
Y You used the Screen Painter to modify the requester's screen since the last time the
Pathmaker product created the default screen.
N When you use the Screen Painter to modify the screen, the Pathmaker product
creates the screen from the attributes you specified on the Requester Definition
screen or, for DB requesters, on the Record Instance Detail screen.
Requester Features
Displays information about the data fields in your requester.
Initial Values
Enter a value to specify the default values in the application screen's data fields.
The application screen shows default values at run time when the screen is first
displayed and when you navigate to that screen and press the function key for which
you have assigned the DFLT action code.
Y For ENSCRIBE records, the Pathmaker product uses the default values specified in
each field's DDL description (VALUE clause). For NonStop SQL tables, the
Pathmaker product uses the default values specified in each column's TABLE
description (DEFAULT clause).
N For both ENSCRIBE records and NonStop SQL tables, the Pathmaker product uses
zero as the default for each numeric field and blanks as the default for each
alphanumeric field.
N is the default value. If the requester type is DB, you can override this value for
individual records in the requester's screen on the Record Instance Detail screen.
Check Data
Enter a value to ensure that nonnumeric characters sent from the database are not
displayed in numeric fields on the screen. Pathway would abort the terminal rather
than display nonnumeric characters.
Y The Pathmaker product does the numeric check.
N The Pathmaker product does not do the numeric check. This is the default setting
for TRNS and DB requesters.
Although this check costs a small amount of overhead when the requester is run, it can
prevent a type conflict that can make Pathway abort the terminal.