Hi again, group. I apologize if I might seem impatient. I'm just
taking heat for trying to utilize transaction boundaries in my
application when they are behaving in this fashion. I really need some
help.... Thanks.

On Apr 29, 3:17 pm, Bruce Willmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm hoping that somebody can help me. We are running jBase 4.1.6.7 on
> HP/UX B.11.31
>
> I should also note that we are not currently using Transaction
> Journaling, although we do plan to shortly.
>
> I'm going to start to describe my problem with a little code snippet:
>
> WRITE Record ON SomeFile, ItemID SETTING ResultCode ON ERROR do
> something
>
> If SomeFile happens to be read-only, then ResultCode will be set with
> a value indicating failure and the ON ERROR clause in the WRITE
> statement will get executed.
>
> However, if the WRITE statement is defined within a Transaction
> Boundary such as
>
> TRANSTART SYNC ELSE do something
> WRITE Record ON SomeFile,ItemID SETTING ResultCode ON ERROR do
> something
> TRANSEND ELSE do something
>
> then the SETTING and ON ERROR clauses in the WRITE statement do not
> execute. The ELSE clause in the TRANSEND statement executes, which I
> would expect, but it does not provide any indication as to why the
> transaction failed; only that it did fail.
>
> Now, I used a read-only file in my example simply because it is an
> easy condition to reproduce. I encountered this situation in real life
> with a file that got corrupted during a stress test of our QA Web
> Service, and the jBase backend of the service started to throw errors
> indicating that the TRANSEND statement had failed. Nothing more, even
> though all WRITEs that occur are done using SETTING and ON ERROR
> clauses to throw the proper error codes for the backend application to
> interpret. I had to investigate all of the files that are written to
> before finding the culprit.
>
> On to the actual question... Is there something that we may have done
> in our configuration or elsewhere that is causing jBase to behave in
> this fashion? Is this a bug in jBase, or is this simply the designed
> behavior? Thank you in advance for your assistance.

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