In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
06/22/2005
at 12:11 PM, "Kok, Howi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm not sure if I should post this in this list.
Yes; it's the most appropriate list for your question.
>I'm not sure if I should post this in this list. Anyway, I hope
>some of you can help me out. We have a batch DB2 COBOL program PGMA
>that calls an assembler program PGMB to open, read, and close four
>VSAM files. I don't know why PGMB closes only two of the files.
PGMB is broken. Instead of trying to live with the bug, why not try to
get it fixed?
>Upon PGMA termination we would get SC03 abends with messages IEC999I
>IFG0TC0A,IFG0TC0B,jobname,stepname,DEB ADDR = debaddr,DSN = VSAM
>data set name for the two closed files.
ITYM for the two files that are not closed.
>According to the programmer there is no problem
>when the PGMB is called from a non-DB2 COBOL program.
He's mistaken.
>What should be done differently when the assembler program is called
>from a DB2 COBOL program?
Nothing in this case.
>Should we not close any files and let the system detect the DEBs and
>close them?
No, PGMB should close all files that it opens. If the programmer
refuses to do so, discuss it with your and his management.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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