ERRORNAME

The ERRORNAME option holds the name of the first error that occurs when you execute a program or when you execute an OLAP DML statement.

Data Type

TEXT

Syntax

ERRORNAME

Notes

ERRORNAME and SIGNAL

You can create your own error conditions in a program with the SIGNAL command. SIGNAL sets ERRORNAME and ERRORTEXT to the values you specify.

You can use the special name PRGERR with the SIGNAL command to communicate to a calling program that an error has occurred. The command SIGNAL PRGERR sets ERRORNAME to a blank value and passes an error condition to the calling program without causing another error message to be displayed. For information on using SIGNAL to pass an Oracle OLAP error up a chain of nested programs, see the TRAP command.

Examples

Example 6-34 Using ERRORNAME with TRAP

In a report program that uses a TRAP command to handle errors, you can use the SIGNAL command to send the appropriate error name to the current outfile.

DEFINE myreport PROGRAM
LD Monthly Report
PROGRAM
TRAP ON CLEANUP NOPRINT
PUSH month DECIMALS LSIZE PAGESIZE
LIMIT month TO LAST 1
   ...
POP month DECIMALS LSIZE PAGESIZE
RETURN
CLEANUP:
POP month DECIMALS LSIZE PAGESIZE
SIGNAL ERRORNAME ERRORTEXT
END