RE: Program looping

Can you post any code that has looping to rule that out?  Sounds like it
could be happening during a READC or a CHAIN to a subfile in a loop.  I've
seen this before, or at least something similar.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com [mailto:Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:46 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Program looping
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello group,
> 
> We are experiencing a most annoying problem, what's more, an 
> _intermittent_
> problem (i.e. it doesn't occur always, nor for everyone) in 
> an RPG IV program.
> 
> One (and only one) of our users manages to get this program 
> looping on the
> production machine, and no matter what we tried on our 
> development box, we
> cannot reproduce this error.
> 
> The looping causes a CPU load of 90+ % for this user's job, 
> and causes the
> user's message queue to wrap, so that we can only see it when 
> it's too late.  At
> the time we notice the problem, the joblog is filled with one 
> single error
> message repeated over and over again (CPF5013 Cannot process 
> subfile request) to
> which the system replies 'C'.
> 
> As we cannot reproduce the error, I was wondering whether any 
> of you have had
> the same problem.
> 
> My guess is that it has something to do with the line failing 
> at some point (the
> AS/400 is located here in Gent, Belgium and the user is 
> located in South Africa)
> but we are not sure at all.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Peter Colpaert
> Analyst-Programmer
> Honda Europe NV
> Langerbruggestraat 104
> B-9000 Gent (Belgium)
> 
> Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com
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