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There's a nice method for removing distracting messages - it involves sending a message before whatever process you want to clean up in, get a msg key from that one, then do another at the end - then loop through the possible message keys (4-byte integer, basically) - IBM has knowledge base article on it, I don't have the link right now.

Vendors should be using this kind of technique to clean up their logs - far too easy just to leave junk lying around!!

Vern

On 7/1/2015 6:54 PM, Rich Marion wrote:
This is the main reason why I try to avoid MONITOR. It confused other
programmers where I work when they read through job logs.

Rich


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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert
Rogerson
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 1:12 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Divide by zero and monitor group...

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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