Error messages from programs with loops

[LindaR]

I am using a loop to decompose multiple time series (using X13.SEATS) with permissible errors set to 1000 so it runs through all the series. For almost all the error messages I get in the program log the series are identified as SER{!I} is it possible to capture the actual series number(s)?

[EViews Gareth]

Hard to say without knowing exactly what you are doing

[LindaR]

Would sending you the program and an example of the program log help?

[EViews Gareth]

Probably.

[LindaR]

Hope so,the code and the program log are attached as is the final error message. The specs referenced in the program are at the end of the error message.

[EViews Gareth]

I can see no reason why EViews isn't reporting the series name, rather than ser{!i}, which is weird.

But I guess you could force it by recording it yourself. Off the top of my head, I think I would do something like:

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!errcount = @errorcount 'the x13 line here !errcount2 = @errorcount if !errcount2>!errcount then logmsg !i endif

And put a logmode +logmsg somewhere at the top.

[LindaR]

Thanks Gareth, your suggestion worked - I now know which series are failing and why/how. All the best, Linda