Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-09 Thread efinnell15
Probably good ones to keep in the regression files? In a message dated 07/09/13 06:33:05 Central Daylight Time, norma.e.mowry@mail.mil writes: We were able to find the 2 records causing the S0C7 abends in the COBOL/Syncsort application. Thanks for the help. ---

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mowry, Norma wrote: >We were able to find the 2 records causing the S0C7 abends in the >COBOL/Syncsort application. Thanks for the help. You're most welcome! It was a big lion pleasure to help! ;-D War story: One of my clients has a similar S0C7 abend with a program they're using 'for yea

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-09 Thread Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 10:18 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Lizette Koehler kindly wrote: >1) LE Traps any abends - does some stuff, t

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Kirk Talman wrote: >It came from a T shirt. Reminds me of a T-shirt I got from a family member who was at Kariba for holidays many many many years ago. On that stands: "My friends went to Zimbabwe. All I got was this lousy T-shirt!" That T-shirt is now serving as a rag to remove bugs (real bug

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-08 Thread Kirk Talman
> From: Gerhard Postpischil > Somewhat off topic, but if that was supposed to be German, it's wrong. I > only have a rudimentary knowledge of Yiddish, but I believe it's wrong > there, too. > > (Die) alte Kacker is the valid masculine plural. > (Der) alter Kacker is the masculine singular. > (

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Lizette Koehler kindly wrote: >1) LE Traps any abends - does some stuff, then returns control to the abend >process Yes. By default as supplied by IBM. With TRAP(OFF) you get nasty side-effects according to LE diagnostic guide. Check the run-time options with RPTOPTS. Norma Mowry wrote: >Th

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 4:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Sorry, This

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-05 Thread Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 08:44 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend On 7/3/2013 5:10 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) wrote: > We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 rea

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread zMan
@TedMacNEIL > > -Original Message- > From: zMan > Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:30:43 > To: > Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend > >

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
frame Discussion List Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Ted, that would be locality of reference. I suppose you'd complain if someone in Australia said "It's Friday", because many on the list aren't Australian? Sheesh. Over-sensitive Canadians...

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread zMan
Ted, that would be locality of reference. I suppose you'd complain if someone in Australia said "It's Friday", because many on the list aren't Australian? Sheesh. Over-sensitive Canadians... On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >It's a bona fide US holiday, which trumps even Fr

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>It's a bona fide US holiday, which trumps even Friday. I disagree. Many on the list are not Americans. You didn't hear any of we Canadians trumpeting our holiday on July 1st. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 7/4/2013 1:43 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: Definite article 'der' changes adjective from marked masculine 'alter' to 'alte'. As opposed to indefinite article as in 'ein alter Mann'. That's why I put the definite articles in parenthesis. In Kirk's original post, he used the indefinite article, w

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Skip Robinson
hern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Gerhard Postpischil To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/03/2013 11:44 PM Subject:Re: Question on how to debug S0C

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
If you have an LE Dump (CEEDUMP, CEESNAP), it's still easier, because LE gives you the traceback of the function or procedure calls, where you find all the information including the offsets I mentioned in my previous post, and you don't even need to do any calculations. If you compiled your progra

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Richard Pinion wrote: >B37s. 222 is easier to handle ;-D Ok, perhaps 322, 722, 822 or 878 are also easy. 622 is somewhat difficult to explain to an angry TSO user, but manageable. My users don't like 722 for obvious reasons. I wonder why, oh, why? ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Steve Comstock
wrote: From: Bernd Oppolzer To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 17:01:29 +0200 S0C7 is the most simple cause of abend I can imagine. -

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread John Gilmore
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 possib

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
x27;t need no dump analysis. Simply look into "MVS System Codes". Kind regards Bernd Am 04.07.2013 17:03, schrieb Richard Pinion: B37s. --- bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: From: Bernd Oppolzer To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to d

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Richard Pinion
B37s. --- bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: From: Bernd Oppolzer To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 17:01:29 +0200 S0C7 is the most simple cause of abend I can imagine. The only

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
ion comes while acquiring scars and observing same in ones peers. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/03/2013 07:10:18 AM: From: "Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/03/2013 07:11 AM Subject: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data excepti

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 7/3/2013 12:11 PM, Kirk Talman wrote: As a certified alte kacker, I would like to comment on what this tells us about the state of mainframe IT. Somewhat off topic, but if that was supposed to be German, it's wrong. I only have a rudimentary knowledge of Yiddish, but I believe it's wrong th

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <01bc01ce7820$59608f30$0c21ad90$@verizon.net>, on 07/03/2013 at 03:05 PM, Carl Swanson said: >You have the entry point to the abend and you have the entry point of >the problem program. In many situations it's easy to get the wrong addresses from the dump if you don't understand how things

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
oot cause of loss of knowledge of "how to debug this simple issue". Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 9:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 07/03/2013 at 07:16 AM, John McKown said: >Being old, I have occasionally turned off LE's abend handling and >just "gone for the throat" using a recent compile (with generated >assembler shown) and a SYSUDUMP. SYSMDUMP, TYVM. >The programmers have forgotten how to do this entirely.

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread John McKown
noring records causing >> the abend. And the people who "own' the code were reluctant to fix the >> root cause even when the fix was spelled out for them. They finally did >> so only when embarrassed publicly. >> >> - The best education comes while acq

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Ed Gould
same in ones peers. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/03/2013 07:10:18 AM: From: "Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/03/2013 07:11 AM Subject: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion Lis

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Carl Swanson
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 2:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend On 7/3/2013 12:11 PM, Kirk Talman wrote

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Comstock
ting your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/03/2013 07:10:18 AM: From: "Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/03/2013 07:11 AM Subject: Question on how to debug S0C

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Kirk Talman wrote: > There have been several various good answers to this problem. > > As a certified alte kacker, I would like to comment on what this tells us > about the state of mainframe IT. > > - Apparently one can be in "Operating Systems Support" w/o having

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Kirk Talman
ng scars and observing same in ones peers. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 07/03/2013 07:10:18 AM: > From: "Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, > Date: 07/03/2013 07:11 AM > Subject: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abe

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Joe D'Alessandro
As someone pointed out, a s0c7 may not really be due to a bad data field in the last record READ. But, to answer that question, if you did get an SVC dump using SLIP and you included RGN, SWA, TRT: use IP SUMMARY REGS FORMAT to get the DEB chain printed or follow it yourself to find the OPEN D

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 7/3/2013 8:34 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) wrote: The program abending is written in COBOL. That invalidates my first guess Back in the late sixties I diagnosed my first 0C7, in a colleague's production program that had been running problem free for some time. He was reading SMF

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 6:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend You might look at some of these Share Proceedings. They may help

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
me know. They are found on www.share.org Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 4:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Question on how to d

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Skip Robinson
e.com From: Steve Comstock To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/03/2013 05:44 AM Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List On 7/3/2013 5:10 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) wrote: > We have a produc

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/3/2013 5:10 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) wrote: We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that is causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also have a CEEDUMP but that's not real helpful in d

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
frame Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 08:16 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend Being old, I have occasionally turned off LE's abend handling and just "gone for th

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
John Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 07:28 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend The LE is clearly involved. It would help to know what language---COBOL?---this application was written in and to have a DCB for the input file that

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread John McKown
SA ESB (US) [mailto:norma.e.mowry@mail.mil] > Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend > > We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a > slip to capture a

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that is causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also have a CEEDUMP

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread John Gilmore
The LE is clearly involved. It would help to know what language---COBOL?---this application was written in and to have a DCB for the input file that contains the offending record. You have provided too little information to enable anyone to help you. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA --

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:10:18 + "Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)" wrote: :>We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that is causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also have a CEEDUMP but that's n

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) < norma.e.mowry@mail.mil> wrote: > We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I > set a slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that > is causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also

Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that is causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also have a CEEDUMP but that's not real helpful in diagnosing the issue. I looked a setting a slip with a trac