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

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