RE: global MONMSG to catch everything

In a previous life I was a SysAdmin who came behind one or more persons
that used the MONMSG CPF0000 as a global Ignore All Errors. It works
wonderful, too good if that is all you do. To use this globally it
should goto an error routine that handles the error. They didn't, and at
times it was only when a user called saying the data wasn't there or
wrong did I know I had a problem. SW upgrades were fun since programs
appeared to run correctly.

The Long and Short of it all, it will work be very very careful...

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Kirk Goins
Pacific Information Systems
503-290-2104
kirkg@pacinfosys.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan [SMTP:dantanabanana@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 12:03 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      global MONMSG to catch everything
> 
> I guess it had to happen.  After 6 months, a nightly
> batch job finally bombed, hanging because of a message
> that wasn't monitored.  As a result, the nightly batch
> processing was delayed until 7 this morning and,
> needless to say, there weren't too many happy people
> when I walked in.  TGIF!
> 
> So... I need to absolutely, positively ensure that
> this batch job will not hang due to a message not
> being monitored.  If I'm not monitoring for a specific
> message that is sent to the program, this app should
> be ended automatically & immediately.
> 
> I seem to remember a global MONMSG to use for this. 
> Something like:
>    MONMSG MSG(CPF0000 MCH0000 ???0000)
> (Can't remember the third one.)
> 
> Is that foolproof?  Or is there a better way?
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