Re: Ending a program from within a procedure

I'd also be interested in your examples.


On 7/26/05, Christen, Duane J. <dchristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Carel;
> 
> I use them all the time. I have a condition handler that intercepts an
> escape message, handles it, and places the relevant information in an 
> error
> structure (same as IBMs API error struct) and returns that to the caller
> which then will determine how to deal with the error from the procedure.
> 
> Depending on your process you can set the error handling up as granular or
> course as you want/need. You can also create "retry" and "exit" logic 
> using
> the C functions setjmp/longjmp. You can also imitate the error handling of
> IBM APIs, pass an error struct and error info will be returned (if one
> occurs) otherwise the procedure will die hard.
> 
> If anyone is interested I can get some examples together sometime this 
> week.
> 
> Duane Christen
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carel Teijgeler [mailto:coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:28 AM
> To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Ending a program from within a procedure
> 
> 
> Reading this thread I miss the mentioning of the Condition Handler APIs:
> CEEHNDLR and CEEHDLU.
> 
> It has to be registered at the beginning of a programme and unregistered 
> at
> the end (of course). It requires (a) special procedure(s) to handle 
> errors.
> You can tell what action to be taken: perculate, promote, etc.
> 
> Joe Pluta wrote an article in MC on this in 2001.
> 
> Are those APIs not intended to do what you want to do? Or is it it just 
> one
> of the many (failed?) attempts to get a decent error handling routine in 
> an
> RPG programme?
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> Regards,
> Carel Teijgeler
> 
> 
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