A SOC7 abend in a PLI program

vinodkumar.rao · New User Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Chennai

Hi,

I have a PLI program that is going down with a SOC7 abend. It is raising this condition due to an error in a variable, that is declared as a numeric but is showing up alphanumeric characters. What I found was that, programmatically, there were no alphanumeric values moved into this variable, but yet it took up junk characters and failed. Here is the abend code: IBM0537S ONCODE=8097 Data exception. I understand this was raised due to another error in the program, but cannot find the error out. When I give the string range and stringsize complier options, then the code runs fine with the string range and string size conditions raised. This is strange and I am not able to find out why this is happening. Please let me know if anyone can help on this.

Thanks.

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:06 pm

Hello,

Make sure the variable was initialized to zero or whatever numeric value will work in your case. Unitialized numeric variables often cause 0c7's.