Daynote ,Svenson

MM-lxxxxvi     Wednesday

2000-04-05

It is cooler, 4°C but not close to freezing as predicted (ground frost). It is dry when I get but when I drive off, half an hour later it starts to drizzle. Until I get in Venlo. The rest of the day is dry if not bright.
Bah, I think I have seen enough drizzle this year to last me some decades.

After struggling with the AS/400 server jobs and the validation programs for TeleSales I find the actual problem. Records to be validated must get a status code of 'VAL'. In one situation they are passed correct, in the other situation the status remains 'HLD'. The problem in finding this is that I couldn't get the debugger to work on the program. Either something with the job or with the program object. Another weird thing was that, when using the RPG dump statement in the program I did get a dump but the system program producing the dump caused a decimal-data (mch1202) error.
That whole episode took the best part of the morning. And the problem is not in the AS/400 programs so Ronny has to solve it (but he is still on holiday). Of course I find the problem a few hours after the mailing of the CD so we now have a product on the way to the clients with a known bug.. One that should have been found during testing. Just lucky that we have a monopoly (all our 'clients' are direct subsidiaries, the only choice they have is use our programs or use nothing. As TeleSales provides a subset of the OMSI-3 module 'use nothing' is a real option ).

I did the file change for the posting to OFI interface and started on the programming. Basically some functions must be transferred from one program to an other. And that other program must be converted from RPG/400 to RPGiv. That is largely an automatic process but while doing it I strip all the death code form it.

And for the first time in a few weeks I got round to reading all the daynotes.