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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Core OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 31, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Allow message overrides in all threads of a multi-threaded job

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Currently the IBM i allows you to override database files and printer files that impact on ALL threads that run in a multi-threaded job. Message file overrides only override message file operations in the initial thread.

This limitation needs to be removed so that message file overrides have the same level of functionality as database and printer files.


Use Case:

Our software is primarily written in C/C++ and runs multi-threaded where applicable. We had a recent issue where a pointer was not set and message MCH3601 from QCPFMSG was issued. The information in the QPJOBLOG gave the failing statement but we needed a call stack to track where the function with the failing statement was called from, since it is a common routine in our code.

Advice from IBM was to change the severity of the message to 50, from 40, and to ensure that the DMPLST settings would provide a DSPJOB output.


Idea priority High

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