RE: Creating a physical AND Logical file

Sounds like a programming error to me... And then the baby got thrown
out with the bathwater - instead of fixing the bathwater...

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:22 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Creating a physical AND Logical file


Dave - with users signing on the first thing in the morning and not
signing off till they leave (sometimes they forget) and doing a
multitude of tasks throughout the day, creating a multitude of temporary
files form different jobs that they run, QTEMP will always be present.
Now the chances that a file created in QTEMP from a program written by
programmer Fred Bloggs has exactly the same name of a file from a
different program written by Joe Schmo  are slim, however, that being
said, I can verify that in one of my earlier positions, this has
happened three times. The first 2 times, we couldn't duplicate the
problem the user was seeing. The third time we drove over to her office
and lo and behold, the program was picking up a temporary file that had
been created in QTEMP (which was at the top of her library list) with
the same name as a PRODUCTION file in the PRODUCTION library list. At
that shop it was determined that QTEMP should be placed at the bottom of
the library list, and if a temporary file needs to used, define the
library name QTEMP as well.



Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx


midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/12/2007 10:02:49 AM:

I guess in 35+ years I've never written ANYTHING that expected QTEMP 
to be anywhere but at the top. Currently we create application data 
areas that are created from template data areas in "production". The 
QTEMP ones are changed to match the current needs of the job. Job ends

- data areas gone. No *LIBL issue at all. If QTEMP doesn't contain 
information that is supposed to be unique to that specific job I don't

see any other purpose for it.