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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Work Management and Messaging
Created by Guest
Created on May 11, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

Provide error handler for secondary thread of multi-threaded job

When a multi-threaded job encounters an unhandled exception, the system should be able to gracefully handle the error with the standard *INQ message to *EXT or QSYSOPR.

Background
When an unhandled exception occurs in the secondary thread of a multi-threaded job, instead of displaying the *INQ message panel for user response, the job loops on the error, filling the job message queue and crashes.

It is very important to have the error handling stability that IBM i has always had.

This is a poor way for IBM i to handle errors. The standard way has always been for the system to send *INQ~ to *EXT or QSYSOPR for handling by the user.


Use Case:

This problem came up when an SQL user-defined function had been incorrectly created without the "not fenced" statement to indicate "run single-threaded". When the job ran, SQL started a second thread. The function tried to use commands and programs that were not coded "thread safe", and the system tried to send *INQ to *EXT, which looped and crashed

Possible solutions
1. Allow the *INQ message program and display file to be used in a secondary thread.
2. Send the *INQ to QSYSOPR for handling.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 2, 2016

    Then it seems my suggestion #2 could come into play - send an *INQ to QSYSOPR as is done with batch jobs. This would prevent the wildly crashing job syndrom in the event of an error.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 15, 2016

    You can send Inquiry messages from a secondary thread. But you cannot get input from the user (the reply) because there is no workstation support for multiple threads. Sending the default reply in this situation is the correct action to take.

    There are no plans to support workstation I/O from secondary threads. Allowing WS I/O from a secondary thread would potentially create deadlock situations between the primary and secondary threads that cannot be prevented by the OS.

    Creating the SQL user-defined function to run single-threaded is the correct action to take.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 12, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #88223 in product IBM i.

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