SOC4 : How to resolve when you dont have the compile listing

murali922 · New User Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 92 Location: India

i have a job which executes a program. The program takes in 5 inputs, and produces 2 outputs.
The job abends when i run it. The abend code is SOC4. I have checked if the DD names are correct.
I dont have the compile listing for the program nor the source code of this program.

Is there a way to find out which of the DDs is actually the problem resulting in SOC4 ?

Many Thanks.

kgumraj2 · New User Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 42 Location: Hyderabad

Hi,

As a test run, can you use trial and error ?

Please let us know how you handled, it is interseting.

murali922 · New User Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 92 Location: India

I have 5 input files, and all the input files are mandatory. Like if I just do some trial and error it would give me a bad return code, which means I still havent found out which file is the real culprit.

So I am looking for some other way ! Can someone suggest.

CICS Guy · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:04 pm

If it is abending on opens, maybe dummying the inputs and outputs one at a time might help....
If it is abending after opens, that may be more of a program logic error....

saptagiri kintali · New User Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 20 Location: chennai

it may be due to reading of file which is not opened successfully

kbmkris · Active User Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 101

Hi Murali,

If you have some previous execution of that program with return-code as 0, refer that JCL and use the same files and try running it. If the return-code is 0, then try using your files replacing that one by one. Hope, this may helps you.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:22 am

Hello,

It is also time to tell the project lead or other management of the missing source and begin re-writing the code.

It is quite dangerous/foolish to knowingly run code in production for which there is no source.