Re: Http_comp issue

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Walker,

Why on earth would you want to use a completion message in an auto-start 
job?!  Who would ever see the message?



Walker Powell wrote:
> All - We have been testing a call to a web service for a couple of
> weeks, and things have gone really well, thanks to some suggestions
> from this list.
> 
> This past week-end we put the project into production and ran into an
> interesting situation. The program that is making the call is running
> in batch and I had been submitting a start up of the program from the
> job scheduler for testing.
> 
> I had planned the production version to be an auto-start job.
> Everything went really good until the first web service call. :-0
> Then we got the message "Value for call stack counter parameter not
> valid".
> 
> Investigation revealed that the call to http_comp has hard coded a
> '1' in the call stack counter and I needed to send my completion
> message to the message queue of the entry specified by the call stack
> entry parameter, not the previous message queue because there is no
> previous message queue based on the way I set up the routing entry on
> the subsystem.
> 
> I didn't want to change libhttp/http_com, so I created another
> procedure and put it outside of libhttp because I wanted to keep the
> lib "standard".
> 
> This solved my problem. I realize I could have solved this in a
> number of ways, but I just wanted to let all know in case someone
> else has this issue when using an auto-start job.  I think this is
> most probably a rare case, though.

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