Reply To: Need Help!

[Charlie Bursell]

Perhaps the concept is valid.   IMHO, there are much better and more maintainable methods to accomplish the same thing.  For any of you that have had the pleasure of my company  🙂  you know I always preach about maintainabilty.  Again IMHO, this method adds a lot to the overhead and maintenance because it is not obvious to those that follow you what you are trying to accomplish.  The same reason I preach against Generate Routes.  If you  do use this method add some heavy commenting.

Also, *NEVER* use msgcreate unless you are building an ACK or inside a UPoC read driver.  It will cause you many problems since the message created has little or no meta data.  Use the msgcopy and msgset instead to maintain meta data.

I just spent several hours running down a problem where the recover_33 procs seemed to not work properly.  The customer swore it was Cloverleaf or the recover_33 procs screwing up.  We finally discovered that when they received a certain ADT type, they had to create another message.  They were using msgcreate to build the second message.  Since that message did not have the Await Replies flag set, it would not wait for a reply and the next message was sent immediately.

A word to the wise should be sufficient.