Re: MCH3203 when pressing attn key

Sean --

Have you made any recent changes to the attention handling program?
If you call it manually from a command line does it call
itself recursively until the MCH3203?  What is different about
the users that are getting the errors and the ones that are not?
Compare their user profiles...

-- Charly

>From: "Sean Porterfield" <sporter@bestdist.com>
>
>We have an odd problem that just showed up yesterday morning.  I tried
>searching the archives for MCH3203 but didn't find anything that related.
>
>When some users press their attention key, they get a message saying their
>job is ending immediately.  It actually kills off both jobs, if they are
>signed on a system request.  Strangely, this does not affect everyone.
>It's
>not related to specific terminals, just specific user profiles it seems.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?  We are at V4R4 probably not the latest cum.
>
>Looking in the job log, I see:
>
>"Message . . . . :   Job ended abnormally because of error code MCH3203."
>Cause . . . . . :   The job was ended by the system because an error was
>   found, and the job was in a condition where the process default
>exception
>   handler (QMHPDEH) could not be given control. The system will not give
>control to QMHPDEH when the job is in between the starting phase and the
>problem phase, or between the problem phase and the ending phase. Some of
>the more common error codes and their meanings follow: MCH0802 - The
>program
>that the job routed to must have parameters, but it is not allowed to have
>any parameters passed to it. MCH1604 - A system object is damaged.  The
>most
>likely object is the program to which the job is routed. MCH3203 - A
>machine
>function check occurred.  The most likely cause is that the program stack
>for a routing step was nested too deeply.  This is probably due to repeated
>calling of the programs. MCH3402 - A system object is destroyed or has
>header damage.  This is most commonly caused by deleting a program that is
>active in the program stack.  It may also be caused by deleting the event
>handlers, external exception handlers, or the program to which the job was
>routed. MCH3403 - The program to which the job was routed was saved with
>storage freed. If MCH3203 is not previously described, display the message
>(DSPMSGD command) to see what is causing the error.
>


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Charly Jones
253 265-6244
Gig Harbor
Washington USA



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