Peter, It appears that the consensus is that there really isn't a way to abend your program in this case. But do you really have to? IMHO, if the issue is that the web application sends valid, but poorly formatted data (in your example, "86b" [where b=blank] is valid but should have been sent as "086"), I'd be more inclined to change the COBOL program and parse the data using "FUNCTION NUMVAL", for example. That ensures proper numeric value recognition and processing.
Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 07:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL move statement issue I have had some programmers come to me with this issue. It appears that we have a new system (web app.) which is sending bad data in several locations to our mainframe (COBOL programs). The proper thing to do is to correct the web app. so that it send the data correct. While we wait for that fix to occur, I am looking into if there is a way without changing the COBOL code to catch this bad data by forcing an abend. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
