Showing posts with label Bug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bug. Show all posts

Saturday, December 1, 2018

What is a reasonable time to resolve an issue?


Today, I experienced a bug whilst building a wide screen definition in 2E.  The build was okay but when I went to use it (in the 2E device design editor), I was getting some low-level errors.

Upon googling the error, I came across this ticket which gave a few workarounds, one of which I implemented.

The given workarounds were:-


  1. Set the screen footer to 25 as per the screen print. 
  2. Set the subfile page size for consuming functions explicitly.  I am assuming they mean…
  3. Override the YSFLEND model value to *PLUS and not *TEXT or override it in the consuming function via F7=Function Options



All of these appear to be perfectly good reasons to postpone fixing this issue up within the product as I am guessing...


  • many use the + for subfile,  
  • many also forget to move the command line down to row 26 anyhow when creating and generating wide screens (they leave it at 23) and then wonder why they have a 3 row gap at the bottom of their screens 😊

Is it okay though, that 15 years after it was raised, it is still an issue…..?



Thanks for reading.
Lee.