Re: MCH3402 received when calling getHtmlIfsMult

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can you post the job log?  Maybe there's a clue there. It could be
something like too many open sockets/files.  Especially if in your program
you are opening stream files and maybe not closing them all the time.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 5:00 PM Vern Hamberg via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Y'all
>
> We have one user who gets an MCH3402 a couple times a week when creating
> receipts - the programs uses CGIDEV2 to create HTML files used to email.
>
> It seems to happen after a busy morning of this. And it is to only 1 user.
>
> Generally, the program does things in this order -
>
> getHtmlIfsMult (only 1 template, though)
> clrHtmlBuffer
> updHtmlVar/wrtSection as needed
> wrtHtmlToStmf
>
> There is no information in CGIDEBUG that helps.
>
> MCH3402 generally means that something a pointer points to is gone,
> right? But it has to be in the getHtmlIfsMult.
>
> I don't think we are running out of memory, and that isn't the cause for
> MCH3402, is it, anyhow?
>
> Our solution right now is to wrap a monitor/endmon around the call to
> getHtmlIfsMult, display something to the user, then back to the caller.
> They are able to go to a different app and resend the receipts.
>
> OK, enough, TIA
> Vern
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