Re: [C400-L] Program ends, no messages, logs, etc

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/05/2004, at 12:43 AM, Walt Fles wrote:

> Im looking to call from the multithreaded job programs I did not 
> write, or that I cannot recompile (ie, run CRTPGM ACTGRP(*CALLER)) on 
> them.  But that needs to be done to the called program, and not the 
> multhreaded job?  Also BTW the threaded program of mine is written in 
> C,　but the other programs Ill be calling can be writen in anything ( 
> C, CL, RPG, COBOL ), but I have no control of them,thanks!

You cannot do this. If any program in a multi-threaded job ends via 
exit(), abort(), or their equivalent APIs, or an unhandled exception 
occurs the entire job is killed.

Your only solution is to run these other programs in a job that is not 
capable of running multiple threads. Either make the calling 
environment single-threaded or spawn a single threaded job to handle 
the program calls.

Since spawning a job for each call will negatively impact performance 
you could spawn a single job that listens on a Unix-domain socket and 
pass the program name and parameters to it. It could pass received 
results back via the socket. You could also connect to the OS/400 
Command Call server and have it run the programs for you.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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