On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:18:52 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >A System ABEND is issued by an SVC when something goes wrong.
Not necessarily by an SVC, and not necessarily associated with an SVC. >Thus is >specific to that SVC and is supposedly keyed to that SVC's number. I too have observed that for *most* abend codes in the range of 1xx through Exx, the "xx" is the SVC that might be associated with the abend, but there are exceptions. Most notably, 0xx abend codes are often *not* associated with any abend code. Would you contend that s0C7 should belong to user SVC 299? However, I have never seen it documented that those abend codes with the "xx" matching user SVCs were reserved for use by user SVCs. Do you have a reference that you can cite to support your accusation that IBM has "hijacked" those codes? >My question only applies to SYSTEM ABENDs where IBM seems to be >violating the assignment of the SYXX codes that are supposed to be >allocated for SVC XX by using some for itself without being the owner >of SVC XX. Again, what "assignment" are you talking about? -- Tom Marchant
