I don't think this would be for application level usage but only for syst em initialaztion, SVM configuration, etc, before real users/apps get started .
I don't know if I would want a SAS covering exec to query a system variab le to see if it should run, but a SAS SVM should check its PRODUCT enable/disable values. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:29:36 +0200, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w rote: >Following this thread, it looks like I am the only one who has >concerns about code in the system that will distinguish between >production, DR (and maybe even DR test). Most certainly you want such >checks only in your own code (which has no errors and does not need >testing) and not in the code that application folks write ;-) >Otherwise ugly things might happen when you need to move the system to >a new machine or so. > >When I was involved with this, I tried very hard to make people use >functional checks only. So if your application needs to connect to >TCPIP, check for TCPIP being present and not whether you're in a >situation where TCPIP should not be present.... (assuming something >else will arrange to run the alternate stack that prevents the real >network to come up in D/R testing). But I think I lost that >eventually, and we settled on something in the LOGMSG iirc. > >Rob >======================== ========================= ========================
