Re: ProgramCall.run() hangs

[John Gilmore-Baldwin <jbaldwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, my program was in QUSRWRK, hung on msgw. Turned out to be a 
library list problem, so I changed the jobd and the program ran fine.

Thanks for the help.

John Gilmore-Baldwin

On Sep 29, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

> It's late, so I don't have tons of information at my fingertips, but 
> let
> me try to explain as best as I can recall.  When you create a 
> connection
> using the toolbox, the toolbox launches a job named QZRCSRVS (by 
> default
> these jobs run in QUSRWRK).  Typically in a situation like this when a
> ProgramCall hangs, it's because the program called halted with a
> message.  If that's the case here, you'll see the message in the 
> QSYSOPR
> message queue as well as in the job's joblog.
>
> Still can't find the right job?  You can also programmatically 
> determine
> which QZRCSRVS job is the one you want.  If you take a look at the 
> AS400
> class, there is a method called getJobs which returns an array of jobs.
> Now, different jobs are started for different services, such as signon
> and database.  If you pass it the right parameter (I believe it's
> COMMANDCALL), you'll get an array of jobs used for program and command
> calls.  Now, I can't think of a situation where there is more than one
> job, so my guess is that if you dump the attribute of the first entry 
> in
> the returned array (I think the methods getName, getUser and getNumber
> will work) and dump that with your "Program about to be called" 
> message.
> Then look at the resulting job to see what the hangup is.
>
> Joe
>
> > From: John Gilmore-Baldwin
> >
> > About to connect
> > Got connected
> > About to call program
>
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John Gilmore-Baldwin
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The Olympian
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