Re: Program failure analysis

So your mainline is just a call to a procedure?

Why?

I hate, hate, hate this.. :)

If you using a linear main, your mainline procedure can have an on-exit.
ctl-opt main(mainline);

dcl-proc Mainline;

monitor;
//actual mainline code
on-error;
dump(a);
endmon;

on-exit;
//cleanup
return;
end-proc;

Charles

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

BLUF: How do you perform failure analysis of a program hours or days
after the program fell over?

I have a programming pattern that I use in order to capture a post
mortem dump in the case of a catastrophic error that I didn't foresee.
I wrap the entire cycle main program in a MONITOR block and run the
cleanup everywhere I RETURN, as well as in the ON-ERROR block; it looks
like this:

monitor;
...
// all is well
wrkReturnCode = '1';
wrkReturnMsg = 'All is well';
exsr setReturnState;
return;
...
on-error;
wrkReturnCode = '0';
wrkReturnMsg = 'Casters up!';
exsr setReturnState;
return;
endmon;

begsr setReturnState;
QsyReleaseProfileHandle(profile_current_handle: errorStruc);
if err_use <> 0;
dump(a) 'release current';
endif;
...
endsr;


Then, ON-EXIT came along! Following the hint in the manual, I moved all
the code into a single sub-procedure and called that from the mainline.
Within that sub-procedure, I put this:

dcl-proc...

ON-EXIT;
QsyReleaseProfileHandle(profile_current_handle: errorStruc);
if err_use <> 0;
dump(a) 'release current';
endif;
...
end-proc;

DUMP is disallowed by RNF0203 (in capital letters, no less!) What do
other RPGers think about this programming pattern? How do you handle
post failure diagnosis? Log4RPG? Spooled file? CEE4RAGE + *NEW
activation group?

--
--buck


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