On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:46:05 -0800, Paul Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Judicious use of DISPLAY statements can tell the programmer, for example, >>exactly which record to pull from the input file. Yes, you can also figure >>that out from the dump, but it takes longer. > >Don't you have a debugger, fergodsake? If the DISPLAY occurs before abending a production job we know the data that existed that caused the problem. Those people with debuggers can later on step through the problem, provided they have enough information to duplicate it (data in the 4,432,134th record was unexpected). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
