S0C4 - When and why did it occur in the program?

guruguha · New User Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 12 Location: Chennai

Hi,
For an input file in cobol, if the input DD name in the JCL doesnt exist in the code, I expected to abend by S0C4. Instead it abended by S000 saying File status of input was 35(there was file-handling for this in the program).
My question is why when will it fail by S0c4?
Please explain abt. s0c4.

Thanks,
Karthikeyan

William Thompson · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:37 pm

The system is not stupid. It attempted to open a file that had no DD and reported that back to the program.
What sort of 0C4 are trying to get and why?

expat · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:42 pm

What's a S0C4
Keeping your foot warm !!!!!

Vineet Joshi · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:21 pm

S0C4 means address exception error.
S0C4 is a type of abend which may occur due to the following reasons.

Bad Subscript/Index

Read/Write attempt to unopened file

Move data to/from unopened file

Missing parameters in called subprogram

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:01 pm

Hello,

Is there some reason you expected an 0c4 when the DD was missing? Why did you have that expectation?

I'm not sure we've answered your question