Re: Capture parms passed in batch job

Feel for you.  I just had this same problem.  Check your 
calling program out thoroughly.  See if it's called more 
than once.  Verify that the parm list is the same.  Hopefully 
you're using prototypes.  Search for the program name that 
gets called with find commands.  Again verify the parm list.  
The error is probably in the calling program.





markallen@kellyskids.com on 03/24/2000 01:43:45 PM
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Subject:        Capture parms passed in batch job

I have a program that when I test runs fine and gives correct results.  This
same job when called in our nightly processing gives incorrect results.  I
think (???) it may be a parameter getting "toasted" somewhere before program
is called.  The program that calls the program in question is a monster and
uses a LOT of files.  I could recreate all the files into a non-production
environment and debug but was I was looking for was:

Is there a quick and dirty way to capture the parms being passed to the
program in question and capture parms passed back into a file, etc. so I can
review after the nightly run

The only way I could think of was to insert a program to write records to a
new file (fields being parms passed) immediately before calling program in
question and again immediately after calling program in question.

Any better ideas...........

Mark Allen
IS Manager
Kelly's Kids
markallen@kellyskids.com

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