> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>
> In a recent note, McKown, John said:
>
> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:58:48 -0500
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 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".
... usually with a return code and reason code which may immediately be
researched.
-jc-
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