RE: Weird program errors that I can't duplicate. Maybe activation group problems?

If you use Monitor to catch an unexpected error, and you want to end processing upon encountering that error, I believe you should pass back a parameter to tell the caller that the program failed, so that program can return to its caller, also passing back the error parameter if needed. Or, the callers may be able to check for a situation that would tell it that processing completed normally. One example might be that the process loads a file, so the caller won't continue on unless that file has > 0 records.

-Kurt

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 10:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Weird program errors that I can't duplicate. Maybe activation group problems?

Okay, more information on this. As I am troubleshooting this. When the program crashes (probably due to this other bug), something stays running which keeps a record locked. When a program crashes (somewhat elegantly with a monitor statement) how do I ensure that the other used modules end as well?

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Mike Wills
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Two users have been reporting the same problem with one of my
applications. I have a very complicated subprocedure that calculates
the taxes on an invoice. I had one of the users try a few things, but
I can't the program to crash on-demand (though it did several times
though the testing). The error I get is "Receiver value too small to
hold result." The user can log out and in again and retry it on the
same invoice and it works flawlessly. Thus my thought it may be activation group problem.

My modules are compiled with the H-Spec of

H nomain bnddir('ARBNDDIR') option(*srcstmt:*nodebugio)

My programs are complied with the H-Spec of

H ActGrp(*caller) BndDir('ARBNDDIR':'MODULES') DftActGrp(*no)

I am by no means an expert with activation groups. Should I change
this to a named activation group? ActGrp(ARACTGRP)

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

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