Timing out of quick

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Just tossing out an idea here...

Instead of setting a flag in some table to indicate that you're doing
something, how about opening a file exclusively in the initialize procedure
and closing it in the exit procedure. Any other process can attempt to open
the file and a failure indicates that some other process has already opened
the file. Timing out or getting whacked by a system manager or even a
complete system failure leaves nothing to clean up since the file will be
closed.

John Pickering
Toronto

-----Original Message-----
From: Deskin, Bob
To: PowerHouse Listserver (E-mail)
Sent: 02/23/2000 8:47 AM
Subject: RE: Timing out of quick

Certainly if the process is killed, that's it. When the user is timed
out
(and I assume you mean at a prompt), QUICK will not do any more input
processing and will not call subscreens. So I suspect you're out of luck
for
the subscreen. However, it should process most other verbs as specified
as
long as they're not for display i/o.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager and Senior Product Advisor
Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Miller@Nightfreight.co.uk]
Sent: February 23, 2000 7:42 AM
To: PowerHouse Listserver (E-mail)
Subject: Timing out of quick


Hi Everyone,

I have a problem with quick timing out on Powerhouse 710G1 based on
Openvms V7.2-1 or OpenvmsV7.1.

I have a screen with an exit procedure, which is used to run another
screen.  The other screen is then used to reset a flag to show the user
is running invoices. 
e.g.

Procedure EXIT
Begin
        Run Screen NFDS0910A
End

Screen NFDS0910A nomode noaction

File INV-CONTROL designer
  Access  VIA NF-LINK USING ("NF")

Procedure INITIALIZE
Begin
        lock INV-CONTROL
        get INV-CONTROL
        let INVOICE-RUNNING of INV-CONTROL = "N"
        put INV-CONTROL reset
        unlock INV-CONTROL
        return
END

However if the user times out or their process is stopped while they are
in the first screen it does not carry out the exit procedure.  I think
they are logged out instantly, is there anyway of doing commands before
they are logged out?  

Daniel Miller
Nightfreight Plc
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