RE: global MONMSG to catch everything

Jim,

It is the MONMSG CPF0000 EXEC(RETURN) that I am talking about.

My point is if you are going to trap errors, do something with them! 
 Don't just swallow them!

And if all you are doing is percolating them down the call stack, why 
don't you just let OS/400 do that for you?  Less work and sometimes 
you can fix what is wrong and take a retry.

It is possible and even sometimes needed to do a global MONMSG 
"safely".  But most of the time, it is not done safely.  And even if 
it is done safely to start with, over time, it tends to degrade (as 
more pgmrs get their fingers into the code).

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From:   James W Kilgore [SMTP:email@james-w-kilgore.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, October 05, 1999 10:27 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: global MONMSG to catch everything

Whoa, Bob,

I won't even go into the 17 year old testosterone driven arena =:-0, 
but
IMHO, there is nothing "evil" about trapping "MCH0000" errors.  Or any
other errors.

It's not so much as "what" is trapped, as "how" it's trapped.  If an 
RPG
program pops up a "invalid array index" error. It's not a problem 
unless
one does not program in a graceful out.

I agree, only a twit would code MONMSG(CPF0000) RETURN as a first 
level
error trapping.  Ever since Q38 was published, there have been CL
programs to percolate the error up to the caller.  Maybe it's time to
make something old "new" again?

Bob Crothers wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> CPF0000 will catch them all.  MCH, SQL, RPG, etc messages if not
> caught (monmsg'd) will cause a CPF9999 message..and that will get
> caught by the CPF0000.
>
> BUT PLEASE BE CAREFULL!  What you are talking about doing is VERY
> dangerous!  And unfortunately, the shops that have the biggest
> problems with unhandled escape messages are then ones that SHOULD 
NOT
> USE THIS TECHNIQUE!  This is because if you can't trust your
> programmers (or vendor) to produce software that runs clean, how can
> you trust them to SAFELY implement something like a global MONMSG
> CPF0000????
>
> Kind of like thinking that giving your 17yr old boy a condom will
> protect him from AIDS & Paternity suits.  Knowing how to do 
something
> safely is not the same as doing something safely!
>
> Bob
>
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