Re: linear-main procedure

Schmidt, Mihael wrote:

I'm just getting my hands dirty with message handling and have come
to a point I cannot explain to myself. I got a program with a
procedure. The procedure produces an escape message and the message
goes up in the stack. I'm calling the program from the command line
and am getting the error message displayed with the entry line for
the response. Everything ok so far. (cycle program)

Now if I change the program to use a linear-main procedure (V6R1 -
new H-spec main) I see the error message but it seems that it is
already handled (at the control boundary? = the ILE program, I am
calling from QCMD = OPM) and I don't have to give a response.

The RPG inquiry message is displayed by the "default error handler" that is part of the RPG cycle.

When the default error handler is invoked for a cycle-main procedure, and you reply to the message with 'C' (or anything except 'G'), the exception gets percolated by the RPG handler. This means that the exception remains unhandled, and it eventually gets to the control boundary.

The linear-main program doesn't use the RPG cycle, so the default error handler is not in effect. This means that you don't get the RPG inquiry message, but otherwise the result should be the same, CEE9901 "Application error. MCH3601 unmonitored ...".

A linear-main procedure is very similar to an ordinary subprocedure. Unless you code a handler yourself (monitor, (E) or *PSSR), any exception in the procedure will go unhandled.

If you need an inquiry message when your linear-main procedure ends in error, you could code a MONITOR around all the code in your main procedure, and then put up an inquiry message of your own in the ON-ERROR section.