In a recent note, McKown, John said: > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:58:48 -0500 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris > > > Before all of carry on in our smugness, I have seen a number of > > applications with intentional abends and created more than one batch > > process with that. > > But, in the given case, I would have thought a dialog box with a message > about a corrupted input file, along with the name of the file, would be > significantly better than just crashing. > On the z/OS side, consider that OPEN has (yet, after 4 decades) no way to report an error to the caller other than "just crashing".
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