I assume your batch program is QTP. What is your "online" program - is
it a Quick screen? A COBOL program?

Have you been running the online program for 2 1/2 years, too,
concurrently with the batch program?

Looks like the online program error handling might not be bullet-proof.
What is it written in, and how is the error handling done? COBOL leaves
lots of room for bad error handling.

Dennis Hassell



-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Friedrich Harasleben
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:17 AM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] Image gurus - missing entry (long)


 Hi listers

I need the help of the Image/Powerhouse gurus out there.

We have a batch progam (Powerhouse) which updates a dataset twice a day
(12:00 and 20:00). Its is a bulk update from a remote system with
several thousand entries.

During the last two weeks we had the following situation twice: an
online program trying to update the same database too (trying to update
a key item), ended up rigth in the middle of nowhere. The update seemed
to delete the entry but it could not add the new/updated entry.

But neither the batch nor the online program gave any error message.

Now where can I start to track down the problem?

The programs run more than 2 1/2 years without any problem.

regards
friedrich

P.S. If someone needs more info I will provide them in a personal mail,
to save bandwidth.

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