On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:52:16 -0300 Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
:>On 13 Jun 2009 09:52:54 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: :>>Clark Morris pisze: :>>[...] :>>> Virtually all LE dumps are User 4039 and in the descriptive :>>> information in the dump up where they give the registers, they show :>>> the original abend code. It's a long time since I had to use the LE :>>> dump but I remember that and that I got the COBOL file areas nicely. :>>Just curious: WHY??? :>>Why the real description is so ugly hidden? Just to make things even :>>more complicated? :>>Usually programs tend to use descriptive messages in more and more :>>situations. :>While I can't speak for the LE designers, I guess that since LE traps :>the original abed, there was no good way to turn around and make that :>the abend code when LE issued the termination. I also suspect that :>the abend code had to be a user code rather than a system code so the :>least confusing method was thought to be use a catchall code and show :>the causing code (system or user) in the dump. Certainly can be done. LE could do all the logic in its ESTAE retry routine and then percolate. -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
