Re: Suppress CPCA087 when copying

On 2017-10-05 10:39 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

"I am not a big fan of stripping messages from a joblog scary or not. When
it does actually fail, and at some time it likely will, you're missing part
of the 'story' the joblog tells."

I have always felt this way too. And after ALL THESE YEARS you are the
only other person I've heard say it.

*puts hand up*

I am a bit fan of leaving messages in the joblog. I think the joblog is one of the best features of the IBM i. Years ago, I had a bit of a fight with someone working in the OS who was horrified that the RPG runtime wasn't removing all MCH and CPF error messages from the joblog and issuing RPG-specific ones. I said that we couldn't possible include all the information that was in the original messages. They finally gave up trying to convince me, yay.

Another best feature that goes along with the wonderful joblog is the exception-based nature of the IBM i, vs the return-code-based nature of other systems. I like the way programmers get an exception that goes in the joblog if they forget to monitor for some error rather than continuing to work with a bad result in silence if they forget to check a return code.