As has been stated, you cannot percolate an abend from one task to another.
If a subtask abends with "completion code x", the mother task can see that in the ECB post code if the subtask was attached with ECB. However, it would be not be OK for that mother task to contort things so that it terminated with that same completion code (unless it could issue the same service and fail the same way), unless this was a user abend code. That is because doing so could likely be accomplished only by your program issuing a system-owned abend (whether by ABEND or CALLRTM TYPE=ABTERM is unimportant).. It would be perfectly fine for the mother task to abend with its own code, with reason information that identified the failure reason of the subtask. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
