Re: Running with LVLCHK *NO in production

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jezz, might this be a good reason to use SQL? Nah, better to keep just
compiling the whole table into every program.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> <<is there any good reason to use a file in production with
> LVLCHK(*NO)?>>
>
> That's like playing Russian Roulette, except there's 3 rounds in the
> cylinder instead of one.
>
> Paul Nelson
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Rich
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:45 PM
> To: midrange-l
> Subject: Running with LVLCHK *NO in production
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> A customer just had a big emergency today.  They ran a program that had
> been run in many years and it completely ruined their part master file.  I
> investigated and found that the program had last been compiled in May 1998
> and the part master file was last created in June 1998 with LVLCHK(*NO).
> Of course, the file layout had clearly changed and when the program ran it
> happily destroyed every record in the part master file.
>
> My question is:  is there any good reason to use a file in production with
> LVLCHK(*NO)?  If a level check had happened, this whole fiasco would have
> been avoided.  I didn't write the software (happily) and I can't think of
> any reason why they would have built this file with LVLCHK(*NO).
>
> James Rich
>
> if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
> the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
> when you're done reading them :)
>        - Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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