ESPIE only catches program checks, it doesn't catch ABENDs. A COBOL program can get an ABEND not related to a program check.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Sri h Kolusu <skol...@us.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 6:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to get CEEDUMP with DFSORT? > Thank you, I had read this. I expect that doing this will return me > to the CEEDUMP behavior I had the other sort product. I was hoping > for an option where the DFSORT termination would continue on to the > LE termination. That was my specific question. Will, or can I get the CEEDUMP? Dave, Generally if you have an error in COBOL , then Language environment SPIE takes over and generates the CEEDUMP. So if your shop has IBM-supplied default TRAP(ON,SPIE) , you would get CEEDUMP. > I still think I am better off setting ESTAE=NO as a default. I would > rather my programmers can fix the error from the first run, rather > than needing another failing run with debug options. If you intend to go with turning of ESTAE , then make sure that you only do it for ICEAM2 environment so that only program invoked sorts have their ESTAE disabled. Please do not turn it off for ICEAM1 environment. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN