> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tony Harminc > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COND CODE 3592 > > Phil Payne wrote: > > > > Maybe the program was converted from VSE which, in the days > > when it was DOS anyhow, used an SVC macro to "end the job". > > > > So, effectively, does z/OS. ISTR that R14 in a jobstep programme > points > directly > > at an SVC 3 instruction. > > It points at CVTEXIT, which contains a handy SVC 3. Unless you are running > under TSO TEST, in which case it points to an SVC 97, which has fooled > more > than one program that tries to decide if its task is about to end. > > > You used to be able to tell if you were the jobstep programme by looking > at that. > > That I doubt; all programs initially getting control from the operating > system have R14 pointing at CVTEXIT. > > Tony H.
ISTR that an SRB program has R14 pointing elsewhere. /J ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
