Its again grey in the morning (and again 14°C, must check the blasted thermometer) turning sunny and not too hot. Nice day.

I keep struggling with the spurious VAL problem till about 16h00. Then I see the problem.
The archiving program begins by deleting all the archived orders that are still "open". Open is defined by a list of status's (not including VAL) next it reads all the active orders and copies them to the archive. Of course all the open orders were removed so the copying goes well. Until an order is reached that is in the archived file with status VAL. Copying would create a duplicate key and is not executed.
The result is that once an order with status VAL gets into the archive it is never archived again.
After copying the closed orders (another set of status's) are deleted from the active files. Thus the order is lost from the active set and all the vital processing data about it is lost as well with only the original data saved.

I solve the problem in about five minutes. Resurrecting the lost data will be another matter entirely. If possible at all.

 

The Dutch have their famous 'coffee shops' where limited amounts of drugs can be obtained. It seems to be one of the reasons why the English supporters/hooligans did not go off picking up trouble. Well that is what the Dutch police and a bunch of interviewed Brits maintain. In Charlerois the police tends to allow the sale of drugs for a day when the English team plays. As a one-off measure in the hope of preventing hooliganism. And it may be needed, after the Turkey-Sweden match there were troubles between Turkish and Swedish 'fans', well some insulated incidents, nothing on a big scale. After picking up some of the trouble makers some Swedes turned out to be Englishmen with Swedish shirts.
That is promising.

Adios