Re: global MONMSG to catch everything

[email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)]

Whoa, Bob,

I won't even go into the 17 year old testosterone driven arena =:-0, but
IMHO, there is nothing "evil" about trapping "MCH0000" errors.  Or any
other errors.

It's not so much as "what" is trapped, as "how" it's trapped.  If an RPG
program pops up a "invalid array index" error. It's not a problem unless
one does not program in a graceful out.

I agree, only a twit would code MONMSG(CPF0000) RETURN as a first level
error trapping.  Ever since Q38 was published, there have been CL
programs to percolate the error up to the caller.  Maybe it's time to
make something old "new" again?

Bob Crothers wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> 
> CPF0000 will catch them all.  MCH, SQL, RPG, etc messages if not
> caught (monmsg'd) will cause a CPF9999 message..and that will get
> caught by the CPF0000.
> 
> BUT PLEASE BE CAREFULL!  What you are talking about doing is VERY
> dangerous!  And unfortunately, the shops that have the biggest
> problems with unhandled escape messages are then ones that SHOULD NOT
> USE THIS TECHNIQUE!  This is because if you can't trust your
> programmers (or vendor) to produce software that runs clean, how can
> you trust them to SAFELY implement something like a global MONMSG
> CPF0000????
> 
> Kind of like thinking that giving your 17yr old boy a condom will
> protect him from AIDS & Paternity suits.  Knowing how to do something
> safely is not the same as doing something safely!
> 
> Bob
>
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