Sysout routed to spool but no display stmt in pgm??

sakthi_ksv · New User Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Chennai

Hi,
recently I was asked a question in an intracompany interview. The question is, a job coded as sysout routed to spool, but the program the job executes has no display statement. will the job abend??

Devzee · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:04 am

Have you tried your question? what exactly happens?

William Thompson · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:08 am

Why would you even think that an unused sysout would cause an abend?

a027412 · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:25 am

i dont think the job will abend, unless there is some other reasons

sakthi_ksv · New User Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Chennai

The interviewer told that the job will abend. I want to make sure that. So if anyone aware of this. Please let me know. the results. I havent tried yet because I am in bench, so i dont have a MF id to test that. So could anyone try this and let me know the results.

Thanks in advance,
Sakthivel

prasadvrk · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:20 pm

No way the job would abend, only the SYSOUT will be missing in the spool.

kgumraj · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:28 pm

Hi,

The interviewer was correct, When there are no display, Yet you get SYSOUT in spool in few cases like,

SOC7
SOC4 etc

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:41 pm

Hello,

Unused/unopened SYSOUT= DD statements will not cause an abend. The worst thing they usually do is cause confusion.

And yes, even of the code does not issue a "display", there may still be one or more SYSOUT= outputs created by the system.

I believe this