ODBC seizup - CFINT task?

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxx>]

We have a customer with a VB application using ODBC to update a physical
file through a logical file on the AS/400; 

The application seems to be "seizing" (IBM's description) groups of records; 

the task CFINT (common func interrupt), the underlying task, is using 40%
of CPU cycles (this is typically a comm failure, disk failure, or a
physical problem); 

it happens only after the VB pgm has been used; CFINT may stay for hours
and then clear itself; can’t look at joblog or anything because there isn't
any; it sometimes clears when user signs off; it's using QCMDDMF file in
QSYS; called an ICF file

suggestion by IBM was to change changed logical files using *MAX *1T
instead of *4GB; should change way file is processed in blocks (bigger); we
have done that;

does this look familiar to anyone?

Jerry



Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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