Re: Divide by zero and monitor group...

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The monitor allows the program to continue but, as you found, the message
is still logged. You can always remove the message if you want.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Robert Rogerson <rrogerson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was somewhat surprised to find that a divide by zero error inside a
> monitor group still wrote/added an error/message to the joblog. The message
> I'm referring to is
> MCH1211 Escape 40 Message . . . . :   Attempt made to divide by zero for
> fixed point operation.
>
> I was pointed to this error as the reason for the program abending, but
> when I checked (the specific line specified in the message) in the program
> it was within a monitor group, so it was already being handled.  In the end
> the issue was elsewhere in the program.
>
> With that being said, my question is, doesn't writing to the joblog take
> up processing time and isn't this message misleading when the program is
> already handling the error within a monitor group?
> I know that checking the divisor before doing the divide operation would
> avoid this issue, but I thought this was one of the purposes of the monitor
> group.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
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