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<h1 class="topictitle1">Specify validity checking for replies</h1>
<div><p>On the <span class="cmdname">Add Message Description (ADDMSGD)</span> command,
you can specify the type of reply that is valid for an inquiry or notify message.</p>
<div class="section"> <p>You can specify (parameters are given in parentheses): </p>
<ul><li>Type of reply (TYPE) <ul><li>Decimal (*DEC)</li>
<li>Character (*CHAR)</li>
<li>Alphabetic (*ALPHA)</li>
<li>Name (*NAME)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Maximum length of reply (LEN) <ul><li>For decimal, 15 digits (9 decimal positions)</li>
<li>For character and alphabetic, 32 characters</li>
<li>For name, 10 characters</li>
</ul>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> If you do not specify any validity checking (VALUES, RANGE, REL,
SPCVAL, DFT), the maximum length of a reply is 132 characters for types *CHAR
and *ALPHA.</div>
</li>
<li>Values that can be used for the reply <ul><li>A list of values (VALUES)</li>
<li>A list of special values (SPCVAL)</li>
<li>A range of values (RANGE)</li>
<li>A simple relationship that the reply value must meet (REL)</li>
</ul>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> The special values are values that can be accepted but that do
not satisfy any other validity checking values.</div>
</li>
</ul>
<p>When a display station user enters a reply to a message, the keyboard
is in lower shift which causes lowercase characters to be entered. If your
program needs the reply to be in uppercase characters, you can do one of the
following: </p>
<ul><li>Use the SNDUSRMSG command which supports a translation table option which
defaults to converting lowercase to uppercase.</li>
<li>Require the display station user to enter uppercase characters by specifying
only uppercase characters for the VALUES parameter.</li>
<li>Specify the VALUES parameter as uppercase and use the SPCVAL parameter
to convert the corresponding lowercase characters to uppercase.</li>
<li>Use TYPE(*NAME) if the characters to be entered are all letters (A-Z).
The characters are converted to uppercase before being checked.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="amsgf.htm" title="You use the Add Message Description (ADDMSGD) command to describe your predefined messages and to add them to the message file you created.">Add messages to a file</a></div>
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