Golly, as I did say in the OP, yes, I would like to end, and soon, but (1) with a little more grace and my message and (2) with a chance to close other DCBs, thereby avoiding a misleading SC03 on an unrelated DCB.
Customers are intolerant of vendor programs ABENDing, in my experience. You ABEND, they call you up and say "this piece of cr*p is blowing up again." You get calls from management about "your program is blowing up." You put out a message and end with an RC 16, they read the message (much of the time) and try to fix the problem, or at worst call up and ask why they are getting the error and how to avoid it. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Talman Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How recover from unrecoverable DCB ABEND? Yes but why would want a program that is given an input file with the wrong RECFM to do anything but abend? Aren't abends the polite way to say to the job submitter "thou hast fubared?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
