> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Leahy > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT > > > Nowadays, oncall programmers are not expected to solve > problems. They are > expected to bypass them. > > Judicious use of DISPLAY statements can tell the programmer, > for example, > exactly which record to pull from the input file. Yes, you > can also figure > that out from the dump, but it takes longer. > > *Judicious* is the key word here. I too have seen idiotic debugging > statements such as 'ENTERING PARA A100 NOW' in production code.
True. The only problem is the 25 million lines of "processing record key: ....." that preceed the abend. Oh, and in this case, you often need to have LRECL=BLKSIZE and BUFNO=1 to be sure that the last message is not stored somewhere in an I/O buffer. Most of the time, the symbolic dump programs like CA-Symdump, AbendAid, or DumpMaster have exactly the information required. I've even gotten it out of the CEEDUMP mini-dump from LE. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
