394e Perle Controllers -- RPG400-L

Title: RE: (2) The target for a numeric operation is too small!!!!!

Does anyone know where I can get rid of 394e Perle Controllers? I realize they are a bit outdated but the name or phone number of a prospective buyer will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Leland, David [mailto:dleland@Harter.com]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:39 PM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: (2) The target for a numeric operation is too small!!!!!

I understand your point, however, we are a small shop and have only 35+ users, most of whom work within shouting distance of my office. I've trained them pretty well to never answer any messages - they have to call me. We get very few errors but every once in a while we do get one. For me, I really like the way CL handles messages because I can often fix the problem and then respond w/ "R" or "I" and don't have to end the job and find a way to restart it. Sure would make it nice if RPG had the same ability. I understand it doesn't really make sense for divide by 0 errors, overflow errors, etc., but for things like times where a called program ended in error, it would be nice to fix the called program and have the RPG program which called it just retry the call.

We also have a lot of batch jobs and our user's don't even have access to answer messages on them. Coding a PSSR, INFSR, etc. for every program just doesn't make sense because these jobs are sometimes not too easy to restart after an ABEND. I always try to fix the problem and allow the job to continue on. "Job restartability" is a big issue to me.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: bmorris@ca.ibm.com [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 2:19 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: (2) The target for a numeric operation is too small!!!!!

>Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:11:03 -0500
>From: "Leland, David" <dleland@Harter.com>
>
>There are a number of RPG messages which I wish you could do an "I" or "R"
>on (such as the failure of a called program) but that's just the way
>messages work in RPG. I doubt that'll change either.

Do you really want your users to reply I or R to inquiry messages? How
are they supposed to know when it's ok? What if they answer 'G'?

By the way, I include myself in the list of users of a program I write
that has a life of more than a few hours.

A simple rule to live by: Never let users see an inquiry message. Use
a PSSR, INFSRs, whatever - if you can rely on a human who doesn't know
your code to decide what to do with an inquiry message, you can rely
on your code to decide what to do with an error.

Barbara Morris

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