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  • Subject: Re: Weird problem w/ V4R2 & VCP's
  • From: David Gibbs <david.gibbs@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:47:31 -0600
  • Organization: Mortice Kern Systems US, Inc.

Yeah, upon further investigation, I've found that the behavior we are
experiencing is both by design and documentation... so the code was depending on
a bug that was consistant in earlier releases of OS/400.

Looks like we have to program around it.

Thanks!

david

Pytel, Alexei wrote:

> I've met the same problem in V3R7.
> Actually, there's a warning in the book , that if VCP changes parameter,
> there's no guarantee that it will be passed to CPP.
>
>     Best regards,
>
>           Alexei Pytel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Gibbs [SMTP:david.gibbs@mks.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 4:24 PM
> > To:   Midrange Mailing List
> > Subject:      Weird problem w/ V4R2 & VCP's
> >
> > Folks:
> >
> > I've got a weird problem with a VCP running under V4R2... due to some
> > screwup with the transfer of assets, our V4R2 system is temporarily
> > not
> > under software support anymore... so I thought I'd shoot the problem
> > out
> > here...
> >
> > The command is calling a VCP that modifies some of the parameter...
> > under V4R1 and lower, the modified parameter gets passed to the CL
> > that
> > the command invokes every time.
> >
> > Under V4R2, however, the modified parameter only gets passed to the CL
> > on ALTERNATE invokations (i.e., Run it once, the modified parms don't
> > get passed, run it a 2nd time, the modified parms do get passed, 3rd
> > time, not passed, etc.)
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> > TIA!!
> >
> > david
> >
> >
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