RE: Timeslice/purge settings was: Suppress Query Status Message

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very true, very true. How many of us have worked on systems without any
real error trapping, no database error reporting, no use of journalling
or commitment control to back out incomplete transactions etc... I think
someone should develop a basic standard for all applications to adhere
to, taught to developers when they are at programmer school, and all
programmers should to to go to this school on Sunday morning (Instead of
having a lay-in or surfin' the net!!)

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Simon Coulter [mailto:shc@flybynight.com.au]
                Sent:   Sunday, March 21, 1999 6:27 AM
                To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
                Subject:        RE: Timeslice/purge settings was:
Suppress Query Status Message

                Mello Paul,

                You wrote:
                >Of course the problem is that it should be switched on
just before a job
                >that always behaves itself decides to misbehave.  (:

                That's one reason why applications should have proper
error handling.  The standard error handler can change 
                the logging level (CHGJOB LOG(4 00 *SECLVL) ) when an
unrecoverable error occurs.  Of course that doesn't 
                help with 90% of the applications out there which don't
gracefully handle errors (but you all know my opinion 
                on that!).

                My preference has always been to have full logging
running for every job and size the machine accordingly.  I 
                have lost count of the number of times a user has come
complaining about some job days after it was run.  
                Without the joblog around it can be very difficult to
diagnose the problem.

                Regards,
                Simon Coulter.


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