Maybe an occasional abend might be worth doing. But it smacks of poor design when "oops.. I didn't really test this.. so I'll just abend" methodology takes over. With all the I think the term is xtreme programming where testing is built into the program from the bottom up, that abending to handle a data issue seems overkill. Granted if all the data is exception... but then I go back to not really testing it.
On 15 Sep 2009 07:55:25 -0700, rob.schr...@siriuscom.com (Rob Schramm) wrote: >I always thought that abending a cobol program was a lame duck method. >Bringing that practice into JAVA seems equally lame duck. Handle the dang >issue or put the offending records off into an exception file and get on >about processing. Set a code... send an e-mail. "Always" seems to be a bit extreme. I believe this technique needs to be used a lot more, but do we always want to get on with processing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html