I strongly recommend adding "WRITE" statements to your SMS routines. Some
of the people on the list only use them when debugging a problem. I put
them in and leave them in. Basically my code stubs look like:
When (condition)
Set
Write
Exit
End
Yes, applications & batch jobs see more messages but when they come to me
to debug an allocation problem, I can point to exactly where in the code
the file fell out and if I've chosen the variables to write wisely, I can
pretty easily say why. And after a short time, they will learn to accept
a few more messages at allocation time.
I'd also strongly recommend that if you're going to work much with SMS
that you learn to use Naviquest and start building a library of Test
Cases. I never delete old test cases. At the risk of repeating myself,
learn how to test with Naviquest. I've found it to be a very powerful
tool especially as I'm writing code to merge SMS code from different
companies. Naviquest allows you to run large #'s of test cases against
your old routines and your new routines and then compare the test results
to show you where your results changed - all in batch, not foreground.
my $.02 worth -
ddk
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