The REVERT statement unregisters an ON-unit that was registered using an ON statement.

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REVERT Statement
Component Description

condition

One or more conditions. For more information, refer to Conditions.

A REVERT statement only unregisters an ON-unit registered in a current block or procedure and cannot unregister an ON-unit registered in an upper block or procedure. If there is no ON-unit registered in a current block or procedure, a REVERT statement will not be executed.

The following example unregisters an ON-unit by using a REVERT statement:

 ON ZERODIVIDE
 BEGIN;
 DISPLAY('ZERODIVIDE condition raised');
 END;

 REVERT ZERODIVIDE;

 A = B / 0;

The ZERODIVIDE condition occurs due to "A = B / 0;" but the ON-unit registered using the ON statement is not executed because it has been unregistered by using the REVERT statement. If there is no registered ON-unit, a default action is executed according to a condition; either the ERROR condition occurs or the program execution continues. The ZERODIVIDE condition set an ERROR condition as the default action.