The Daily WTF

Alex F is suffering from a disease. No, it’s not disfiguring, it’s not fatal. It’s something much worse than that.

It’s MUMPS.

MUMPS is a little bit infamous. MUMPS is its own WTF.

Alex is a support tech, which in their organization means that they sometimes write up tickets, or for simple problems even fix the code themselves. For this issue, Alex wrote up a ticket, explaining that the users was submitting a background job to run a report, but instead got an error.

Alex sent it to the developer, and the developer replied with a one line code fix:

i $$zRunAsBkgUser(desc_$H,”runReportBkg^KHUTILLOCMAP”,$na(%ZeData)) d . w !,”Search has been started in the background.” e w !,”Search failed to start in the background.”

Alex tested it, and… it didn’t work. So, fully aware of the risks they were taking, Alex dug into the code, starting with the global function

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