Re: IFACTIVE OCL glitch ?

Did they check for disconnected jobs?  These may answer to the IFACTIVE
command but would not show up on wrkactjob unless you press F14.  Check
QEZJOBLOG output queue to see if there where any disconnected jobs at
the time

John Hall
Home Sales Co.

Schmuel wrote:
> 
> Hi Midrange,
> 
>     Running OCL (of course :-) we use the IFACTIVE command in some procedures,
> in the S36E environment type of situation..
> 
>     Last night, in a program that runs every day and has never been a 
>problem..
> the IFACTIVE-'ARINQB'  (A/R Inquiry Program) answered yes to a user, despite
> our operations people making triply sure that WRKACTJOB did not show any
> thing even remotely close to that running, as well as checking all the
> users in
> the shop visually, and I checked the jobs also when I came in to take the
> running procedure out of its loop/wait state by cancelling it and jumping
> over..
> somewhere in the midst of all of this, the system stopped thinking the job
> was running, tho clearly no such job was ended.....  (I was testing)
> 
>     Is there any possible known glitch that could hold that information in
> the system
> area even tho the job is de facto ended..  (perhaps related to running through
> Client Access and an NT server to the workstations) ...
> 
>     It was quite strange, a tad disconcerting, not a big problem but
> something I
> could use a little idea on ..  Thanks most excellent AS/400 list...
> 
> Steven in newyawk
>
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