Alfredo writes:

>Barry encountered an IMAGE status -3906 (which is not a very friendly
>thing, by the way), and he became worried when his application could not
>perform a DBOPEN.  Naturally, his first thought was that he had a database
>corruption.

This has hit my clients as well, on several occasions. Isn't there a
facility in TPI to intercept DBERROR and DBEXPLAIN? If not, can one be
added? Most programmers go to the trouble of calling one or the other in
order to speed up diagnosis of problems, but TPI errors just end up being
completely opaque. The customer looks in the IMAGE manual (it's an IMAGE
error, after all; it says so in the message), discovers that s/he's got
an *undocumented* error, and panics.

How about it, TPI vendors? Can we get real error messages through the
documented DBERROR and DBEXPLAIN interfaces?

-- Bruce


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