Thanks. I was a bit vague. But I was basically wondering how to get from the PERFORM'ed paragraph(s) back to the originating PERFORM verb.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . [email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump > > Double check for a PERFORM label THRU DO-READ. If present it should > be using the label before the DO-READ. > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, McKown, John > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not really a COBOL programmer. But I am familar with > COBOL. Anyway, we had a looping transaction in CICS/TS 3.2 on > z/OS 1.10. I used a monitor program - Mainview for CICS from > BMC, to abend the transaction. This produced an AbendAid/CICS > dump. Which is of little use because our COBOL code is very > PERFORM heavy. Basically what the dump showed was that I was > in a paragraph which looked mainly like: > > > > DO-READ. > > EXEC CICS READ ... > > END EXEC. > > > > > > The paragraph DO-READ is referenced via a PERFORM verb in > about 10 different places to read this file. How do I tell > which PERFORM was the one which was most likely looping? I.e. > I know how to backtrace a series of CALL verbs via save > areas. But how is this done for a PERFORM backtrace? > > > > John McKown > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

