Joe, Once again, can I strongly suggest that you pause your functionality development for a while and invest some time into :
(O) A robust general purpose recovery routine that can be used in all modes (prob/sup and TCB/SRB). This routine should focus on grabbing diagnostic information into a structure that your mainline code can understand and also modify its behaviour based on the program that established it. You can design a structure that the establisher passes as a parm on the ESTAE/ARR or FRR. Make it as generic as possible so that you can reuse in other projects. This would include whether to retry , what regs to restore , whether to take SDUMP or TDUMP, whether to issue messages via WTO etc etc (O) A comprehensive internal trace facility that can help you diagnose program flow issues and remove a lot of guesswork when issues arise. Even in its simplest form, adding a footprint into an internal circular memory buffer can greatly enhance your ability to debug. A few days writing IPCS rexx to locate and print out your trace buffer contents could save you weeks of head-scratching down the road. Writing this stuff once and doing a good job on it can gain you years of benefit. Rob Scott Rocket Software. Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Joseph Reichman <reichman...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 11:16:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Why it’s important to take Seymour’s advice EXTERNAL EMAIL Seymour First let me wish you a good year I did schedule the irb in the ikjeft01 TCB against Seymour’s advice for a return code of zero from schedirb However the TMP Estae issued an SDUMP I guess it didn’t like me scheduling an irb in its TCB Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ================================ Rocket Software, Inc. and subsidiaries ¦ 77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham MA 02451 ¦ Main Office Toll Free Number: +1 855.577.4323 Contact Customer Support: https://my.rocketsoftware.com/RocketCommunity/RCEmailSupport Unsubscribe from Marketing Messages/Manage Your Subscription Preferences - http://www.rocketsoftware.com/manage-your-email-preferences Privacy Policy - http://www.rocketsoftware.com/company/legal/privacy-policy ================================ This communication and any attachments may contain confidential information of Rocket Software, Inc. All unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Rocket Software immediately and destroy all copies of this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
