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Conference iosg::all-in-1

Title:ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Please spell ALL-IN-1 correctly - all CAPITALS!
Moderator:IOSG::PYECE
Created:Fri Jul 01 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2716
Total number of notes:12169

2655.0. "Help displaying vms status during spawn" by COMICS::GLEDHILL () Thu May 01 1997 00:45

I have a customer who is trying to spawn from ALLIN1 to run a (kermit) program.
Intermittently the spawn fails, but the vms error status is not returned.

Is anyone aware of a way to make ALLIN1 display the vms error status when
this happens. Currently it only displays this.

00000000 error occured in spawned process

Thanks for any help.

Dave Gledhill.
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2655.1one wayIOSG::TYLDESLEYThu May 01 1997 10:5428
    Dave.
    There are several ways to do this. System management relies heavily on 
    transferring data to and from batch jobs and ALL-IN-1. One way to do it
    is to use an oa mailbox (tip - search through oa$lib:sm*.com for the
    word 'mailbox'. Rather than go through the api involved (you can look
    that up in the API manuals), try using one of the existing SM coms to
    demonstrate the principle, e.g oa$lib:SM_FIND_FILE_SIZE.COM.
    
    In your ALL-IN-1 subdirectory create a small script (my.scp) as follows:
     
    GET oa$dcl = "@oa$lib:SM_FIND_FILE_SIZE.COM sys$login:login.com 1"
    GET #x = "#sm_status = " #sm_status "  " "#file_size = " #file_size
    GET oa$display = #x
    .EXIT
    
    Then from Gold KP7 or the angle bracket (<):
    <do my
    
    It should return:
    #sm_status = 1  #file_size = 8
    
    and demonstrate the way that stuff from a program in the subprocess can
    be brought up into ALL-IN-1. See how SM_FIND_FILE_SIZE.COM does it.
    
    Sorry if this is not exactly what you were asking. If wrong, let us
    know, and I'll try again.
    Cheers,
    DaveT
2655.2Further Info ?KERNEL::BURDENIWed May 14 1997 17:217
    If the error causes the process to fail, can any further information
    other than that already mentioned be brought back to the screen ?  
    
    I was going to check the Accounting information for the process 
    termination status.
    
    (I have just taken over this customer call).
2655.3I don't think there's anything you can do...IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer&#039;s ApprenticeWed May 14 1997 18:1312
    I presume that GOLD/W didn't show anything else? Most likely some sort
    of OpenVMS resource shortage caused the problem.
    
    The code appears to try and signal the failing status (although if DDS
    is in use, then the spawn status is overwritten by the status return
    from calling DDS initialisation) but it looks like it's using a message
    that doesn't have an FAO to receive the status....
    
    For you, there doesn't seem to be much else you can do to diagnose the
    problem, but you might like to submit a very low priority IMPT so that
    someone looks at this code for longer than the two minutes I just
    spent....