RE: Is there a answer for this?

I don't know whether this is still the case (it was on about V2R3 ...) but
we had a big problem at one stage when this kept happening (and in fact the
jobs wouldn't close down whatever we did and needed ENDJOBABN). We checked
and all the applications were monitoring properly for errors. It turned out
to be an attention key handler that was capable of returning an *ESCAPE
message if it experienced a display error (like someone switching a screen
off ...). The attention key handler appeared to go into a horrendous loop
that was impossible to close down in any way except ENDJOBABN. Moral - if
an attention key handler experiences a screen error, it must end normally.
Mandy





Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com> on 27/02/2001 15:43:52

Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
cc:    (bcc: Mandy Shaw/Pacific/UK)
Subject:  RE: Is there a answer for this?




Tom,
Aside from Don's motivational speech <big grin> look at your programs;
especially the one giving the error.  Your I/O should trap errors.  In RPG,
you should be putting an indicator in the LO columns or using the (E)
opcode
extender.  In CL, use MONMSG.  Once you've trapped the error, don't ignore
it - do something with it, even if it's DUMP and terminate.  The
post-mortem
is valuable in and of itself.

Buck

> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Don
> Sent:   Monday, February 26, 2001 6:49 PM
> To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:     Re: Is there a answer for this?
>
> Yeah, tell the sales idiod that if he/she can't learn to signoff properly
> that their replacement will be given a shot at trying...!
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 tkennedy@harcourt.com wrote:
>
> > Someone in the Telesales department shuts down there AS/400 session
> without
> > properly signing off the system, when this occurs that session
> > will consume more than 65% of the CPU unless the job is manually ended.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to combat this problem? Our
> > system is at V4R4...
>
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