On 16 Sep 2009 08:02:52 -0700, rob.schr...@siriuscom.com (Rob Schramm) wrote:
>This is just poor man's control of processing. I fail to see why >savepoint, rollback and commit are less effective than abending and >forcing a rollback. I am sure that the shop has access to some sort of >notification system (i.e. e-mail). Save off the offending stuff, send out >a processing exception to be remediated and continue. While I did cede >that abends may be useful, some actual programming logic would be more >useful. Basics are documented in DB2 SQL manuals. > >Abend processing may have been popular.. but does it still need to be as a >normal course of action? If the program knows what happened, a full ABEND includes lots of data to help us determine the cause of the failure. If the program knows what happened, do what you can to make it easier for everybody to determine the next course of action. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
