On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:34:23 -0400, Don Leahy wrote: >Nearly all of the Cobol programs that I have worked with in the past >20 years have had some sort of connection to a DBMS or message queuing >system. Abends are needed in order to roll back uncommitted updates >when a condition arises that prevents the application from continuing. > In other words, abends are used to preserve data base integrity. > Wouldn't it be sufficient, then, simply to exit with whatever return code, without issuing a COMMIT?
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