Bernd has summarized this situation more than adequately. Norma Mowry did not provide us with full information about the COBOL compiler that produced the offending program, but if it is a fairly recent Enterprise COBOL compiler it would, given the right compiler options, almost certainly be possible to shoot this 0c7 at the source-program level.
That said, it is clear that the applications staff here lacks some skills it should have. If COBOL is itsr development language, there must be someone who can read LE dumps available. Not all system ABENDs are so easy to deal with as 0c7's. Let me also note that another implicit assumption has figured in these discussions. If the ABEND occurred in SYNCHSORT code, it would almost certainly have provided diagnostic information that was identifiable as such. It is still possible, albeit very unlikely, that the error is in the record/sort-field description provided to SYNCHSORT; and that description should be checked. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
