RE: HTTPAPI Fixes: HTTPAPI 1.25 beta1

["Stone, Joel" <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - we are now running in production and it has worked flawlessly (without locking any files) for 3 days.

It looks like success!!

It is running as a SBMJOB job, so it is constantly using a fresh signon I presume.

The older version would lock files intermittently, maybe half the time.  Have not had one file lock in dozens of runs over the past 3 days.


PS I am doing CRPFRMSTMF and then RTVMBRD to get a record count and file size.

You said it will work, but not the way you would do it.

How would you accomplish this task - check the size of a stream file to test for "no more data" condition?

Thanks again!



-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:14 PM
To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects
Cc: Stone, Joel
Subject: Re: HTTPAPI Fixes: HTTPAPI 1.25 beta1

Hi Joel,

I'm glad you're pleased.

Have you tested the change?  In particular, please test it with a fresh 
sign-on. The "locking" bug only manifests when the file is one of the 
first 3 file descriptors opened in the job.

Certain environments (Java, C, QShell, PASE, STRDBG) will immediately 
use up those 3 descriptors, preventing the problem from occurring. 
That's why it wasn't caught in testing over the prior 3.5 years since 
that code was written.

So please test it, the same way you originally created the problem, but 
also make sure you test with a fresh sign on.

Please let me know whether the problem was/wasn't fixed.  I don't want 
to release it until I know it's fixed. (It seemed to be, for me, anyway.)

-SK



On 2/17/2012 5:54 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:
>
> Thank you so much for fixing this.
>
> I have never seen such great service from a vendor - but to get a
> quick fix from another IT shop is phenomenal!!
>
> We were struggling with an old Trailblazer tool that died when the
> vendor changed their web site.  This HTTPAPI tool really saved the
> day.
>
> Thanks again for repairing the locking bug in the command!
>

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