If you change to SYSMDUMP and use the IPCS command "IP VERBX LEDATA 'ALL'", you may be able to get a traceback and PSW/regs at time of ABEND.
Gord Tomlin wrote: > > Just looking for input as to whether this is "working as designed" > before I report it as a defect... > > If a program that uses CEEPIPI to call HLL subroutines abends while > *not* in any of the HLL subroutines, LE recovery processes the abend and > transforms a system abend into a LE user abend. Meanwhile, the > associated dump is written to SYSUDUMP rather than CEEDUMP. > > This situation can be recreated by using the samples "ASMPIPI" and > "HLLPIPI" from the LE Programming Guide", and adding the abend of your > choice (I used EX 0,*) after the label TSUB in ASMPIPI. Instead of > seeing a ABENDS0C3 in ASMPIPI, you will see a ABENDU4036-2 associated > with CEEPLPKA. The only sign of the original abend is in the system > trace table. Needless to say, LE's recovery routines have not made a > positive contribution to locating the original problem. > > One of the requirements for a program that uses CEEPIPI to call > LE-conforming HLL routines is that the calling routine *not* be a > LE-conforming program, so it seems nonsensical on the surface that LE's > recovery routines would try to interpret the abend. > > The LE Programming Guide says: > - init_sub creates a LE environment and "sets the environment dormant so > that exceptions are percolated out of it. > - for call_sub, CEEPIPI activates the LE environment before the called > routine is invoked, and after the called routine returns, the > environment is dormant. > > It appears to me that LE is doing an incomplete job of > ignoring/percolating abends that occur while outside of the LE > environment. Does anyone know anything to the contrary? > > Thanks! > -- > > Regards, Gord Tomlin > Action Software International > (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) > Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507, gord.tom...@actionsoftware.com -- Don Poitras - zSeries R & D - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive mailto:sas...@sas.com (919)531-5637 Fax:677-4444 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
