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How full is "/dev/hd1", the device that was 100% full earlier?

Normally you will do any type of CDC before writing to the target, since you usually will overwrite your target data so doing CDC after the update is kind of like backing up your data after the disk format.

In order to stay with numbers, you can use a combination of OCONV and ICONV to effect this, the first converts from the format "1.000.000,00" to "100000000" and the second converts to the format "1,000,000.00" staying with numeric formats. Or use a CONVERT(',.','.,',"8,02") to pretty much do the sam...

Craig - doesn't this also occur when you try to set an integer parameter to the value "Hello World"?

Out of curiosity, what did the DSGetLinkInfo() call return?

Create several configuration files, from 1 node through to the number of CPUs you have on your system. Make the configuration file a parameter to your job and measure performance, starting with 1 node and working your way up. In many cases the 1-node may give you the best performance.

...no limit to how many processes can be started at any one time as unix will then share system resource between them all... Even though a given UNIX machine might be nominally able to start 2^^8 or 2^^16 PIDs according to it's configuration doesn't mean that it can. All systems have a memory limit...

shrek7577 - it doesn't look like quite the same problem to me, this is a n extreme slowdown type of issue while what you described was quite the opposite, where the job doesn't terminate correctly.

When you execute DSLogFatal() it does not return; the program immediately terminates. It is good practice to code in a loop exit, but it is not required. When DSLogFatal() is called by DS/BASIC code when not running as part of a job, i.e. when being tested in a user written routine, it will return t...

ummm... the incorrect display of usernumbers has been an issue since before DS was a product. The underlying engine was written at a point in time where nobody could envision PIDs being more than 5 digits and not all portions of the product will correctly display PIDs (LIST.READU only shows the last...

I'm unsure of whether or not DSGetLinkInfo(DSJ.ME,DSJ.ME,DSJ.ME,DSJ.LINKNAME) will work in a sequence as opposed to a job, but it might solve your problem. If not, I'd add a parameter to your rFailure_Handler routine to include this information.

The limitation is not in the sequence itself, but might be related to the amount of resources that 20 concurrent PX jobs might use on your system. What sort of job failure causes do you get?

IBM has issued a patch for this site that can extend the timeout period. I am not sure if it is generally available, but the patch addresses ecases 63861 and 70788

The frightening thing is that in 10-15 years the next generations of computer professional will listen with open-eyed wonder to stories of the "wild days at the beginning of the 21st century" when people actually still used those antiques called "monitors", "keyboards" and "mice" and when home PCs a...

Great job 2B, keep up the good work!