> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gale [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 12:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Lost I/O
>
>
> Fellow Listers,
>
> I have one I thought might interest you. I have a process
> that logs it's
> activity to a file. Easy enough. Just:
>
> File logfile=log.group.account,old
> Echo Some log record>>*logfile
>
> Worked like a charm during development. Then came training
> day. Lots of
> these jobs hitting the queue all at once. Then we noticed (I
> should say to
> my embarasment someone else noticed) that the log record for
> a particular
> event was not there.

I like to use ;SHR;GMULTI when appending to log files from possibly multiple
jobs at possibly the same time....

- Mark