Re: Embedded SQL weirdness

Dean,

At 02:19 PM 1/18/99 EST, you wrote:

>Ahh, the pattern emerges!  The files must be journaled on your system.  I ran
>into this a few weeks ago, and about drove myself crazy trying to figure out
>what happened because the environment in which I was testing was not
>_supposed_ to be journaled.  I forgot to change the compile defaults on an
SQL
>program, which is normally not a problem because the job will tank when run
>against unjournaled data and remind me to recompile correctly.
Unfortunately,
>my test environment had recently been refreshed from production and the
>journals were not removed, as is the usual procedure.  My program threw all
>the records into the commitment buffer, and I lost half a day trying to debug
>why it wasn't working.  Compiling with COMMIT(*NONE) corrected the problem,
>after I issued a COMMIT from the command line on a lark and my data
>"magically" appeared.  Apparently, issuing the STRCMTCTL command prior to
>using commitment control is no longer a prerequisite.

 I had the same thought about commitment control, so I tried running COMMIT
from the command and it didn't work.  So I was a bit baffled by the behavior.

 -mark

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