On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:46:13 -0600, David Day retorted: >>I've got an assembler subroutine that does QSAM I/O. One of its features >>is a DCB ABEND exit, the purpose of which is to allow for graceful >>termination in the event of an I/O error. > >>For ABEND S002-04 (reading an FB dataset as VB -- not an implausible user >>error), the "option byte" at the address in R1 + 3 is x'80' -- in other >>words, there are NO acceptable options: not okay to recover, not okay to >>ignore, not okay to delay. > >The above is from the original post. This does not sound to me as if it is >a successful execution of QSAM GET to drive the EOV. I guess I just read >it wrong. While the "Using Data Sets" publication certainly says what you said (in your earlier post), the Messages manual for IEC036I 002-04 says that the user's DCB ABEND Exit routine is taken if one is provided. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI
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