RE: Pet peeve about users

You mean System I programmers should mimic IBM and make error handling an integral part of the development process? What an idea!

Gary Monnier


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Pet peeve about users

On 1/13/2012 3:06 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Why is it that programmers don't write their programs so that users
only ever see meaningful messages and not the green screen of death?

And while the program is preparing the meaningful message, it can also be sending the joblog and dspjob (open files, locks, call stack, etc) in an email, or storing them somewhere so the end user doesn't even have to know about it.

The dspjob and dspjoblog should probably be captured at the exact time the error happens, either by using the message watch facility, or a CEEHDLR handler (that just looks at error messages without trying to handle them).
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