On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 08:49:22 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: >Here are some abend-aid ddnames and their purpose. >/... >//ABNLALL DD DUMMY Forces formatting of all program storage >//ABNLDUMP DD DUMMY Forces printing of the normal IBM dump >//ABNLENAB DD DUMMY Enables Abend-AID when it has been >//ABNLFMTD DD DUMMY Forces printing of only the formatted >//ABNLHELP DD DUMMY Produces the Abend-AID help pages when >//ABNLIGNR DD DUMMY Shuts off Abend-AID processing >//ABNLNCBS DD DUMMY Suppresses printing of the Abend-AID >//ABNLNODP DD DUMMY Suppresses printing of the IBM dump >//ABNLNONE DD DUMMY Opposite of //ABNLALL >//ABNLNWSP DD DUMMY Suppresses printing of the Abend-AID >//ABNLPCBS DD DUMMY Forces printing of the Abend-AID data >//ABNLSUPT DD DUMMY Suppresses the inclusion of Abend-AID/ >//ABNLSUPW DD DUMMY Suppresses W-level message in the body >//ABNLWIDE DD DUMMY Allows 121-column output when the default >//ABNLWSPT DD DUMMY Forces printing of the Abend-AID > ... Certainly an amusing way of bootlegging options into a program. They could have packed more information into attributes of the dummies.
Or, they could have simply supplied an options file: //ABNLOPTS DD * (Which would not have been listed in the job log.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
