Re: fun with virtual devices QPADEV*

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> From: brian@cannonexpress.com (brian)
>  
>  It seems that users will occasionally inherit someone else's previous
>  virtual device, and start receiving messages intended for the previous 
user.
>  That is, I am receiving some status messages from Premenos which are
>  intended for my coworker.  Am I correct that I am now using the virtual
>  device that my coworker was using when he started EDI?

There is some way to force virtual device addressing to always give the same 
# system for same physical device, instead of default QPADEV* # next 
available.  I am not up on precisely how that is done, but it is critical to 
do when your application software was written with the assumption that a 
workstation is a physical device & a user of that device will have the same 
session sign on every time.

This can affect messages, work areas for batches of transactions, recovery 
from aborted tasks ... a lot of application stuff just cannot work right if 
you do not get the same virtual address every time you sign on from whatever 
real location you are in.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor

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