QUICK

[Taber, Phil]

It's been a while since I have played with this stuff, so forgive me if I
say something stupid...

In any case, how are you getting the logicals set in the detached process.
Some logicals are shared and some are not, depends which table they are set
in.  

It might be easier to run Quick in a batch job in which you will have a log
file to view for sure and you can verify the environment using show commands
prior to executing quick.  This could also work for QTP.  You may want to
set up a unique batch queue dedicated to this and running at an elevated
priority.

Hope this helps.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Kesterson, Roger
[SMTP:Roger.Kesterson%ryobiaz.com@interlockp.lubrizol.com]
	Sent:	Friday, February 04, 2000 9:37 AM
	To:	'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
	Subject:	RE: QUICK

	Hi All,

	Jeff Hoffman asked for more info on what I'm trying to do, regarding
not
	being able to get QUICK (PH 710G2) to run as a detached process in
OpenVMS.
	We have a data collection system that will be writing data to a
mailbox on
	our Alpha.  I need something to read those records from the mailbox
and
	write them to an indexed RMS file.  I would like it to run as a
detached
	process if possible so as not to clutter up a batch queue.

	The DCL RUN/DETACH command apparently does not allow parameters to
be passed
	to the image on the command line (like the AUTO= parameter for
QUICK, QUIZ,
	QTP), or at least I couldn't find a way to do it that it liked.  So
that
	seemed to eliminate QTP as the image of choice.  But QUICK on the
other hand
	has an alternative way to pass commands and parameters, by defining
QKIN,
	QKOUT, QK_TERMTYPE.  So I wrote a short QUICK "screen" as follows:

	SCREEN read_my_mbx

	FILE my_mbx DESIGNER OPEN READ SHARE WAIT ON RECEIVE
	FILE my_file DESIGNER OPEN WRITE SHARE

	PROCEDURE INITIALIZE
	  BEGIN
	    WHILE RETRIEVING my_mbx
	      BEGIN
	        LET field1 OF my_file = field1 OF my_mbx
	        LET field2 OF my_file = field2 OF my_mbx
	        LET field3 OF my_file = field3 OF my_mbx
	        PUT my_file RESET
	      END
	    RETURN
	  END

	I tried defining QKIN, QKOUT, and QK_TERMTYPE, and it would run fine
	interactively, but apparently will not even start QUICK (at least
there is
	no indication that it does, ie. no error messages) when I add
/DETACHED to
	the RUN command.  I get the "%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of
created
	process is..." message, but the process does not appear to ever
actually
	start running.  There is nothing in the QKOUT file.  I even tried
using
	/OUTPUT= and /ERROR= on the RUN command to receive any error or
other
	messages that might give some indication why its not working. I get
nothing.

	Maybe I just need to write something in a 3GL. Any and all
suggestion or
	ideas will be appreciated.

	Thanks,

	Roger Kesterson
	Sr. Programming Analyst
	Ryobi Outdoor Products, Inc.
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