In a message dated 7/19/2005 7:29:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When will a STAE retry routine issue an abend? You have to write your own STAE, ESTAE, or ESTAEX routine. If you choose to put an ABEND macro inside that routine, then your STAE routine will issue the ABEND wherever you put it. If you don't put an ABEND macro in the routine, it will not issue the ABEND, in which case normal IBM code will sooner or later ABEND the program. But you asked about a STAE retry routine. The purpose of a retry routine is to keep executing even though the program has done something illegal which would ultimately result in an ABEND and termination of your program, in which case your STAE retry routine would not be issuing an ABEND. When your program has finished doing whatever is necessary to do in the retry situation, then you can choose to issue an ABEND macro or you can return to the normal return point in the Initiator/Terminator's code and tell MVS that everything ended normally (as in loading R15 with 0). It's your retry routine. You write it to do whatever you want. One thing you could do in the retry routine is continue executing normally just as if nothing bad had ever happened. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
