CEE3250C The system or user abend U 500 R=NULL was issue

SUJATHAA · New User Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 7 Location: CHENNAI

Hi all

I am facing the following abend.

CEE3250C The system or user abend U 500 R=NULL was issued.

Could anybody help me in identifying what is the root cause for this abend

I searched in the Google for User abends I found the following explanation for User abend 500.

Code --- Module ---- Explanation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
500 - --- LNKBTO --- Error in link initialization routine

But still I am not clear with the root cause. Please help me to get clarify with this issue
Regards
Sujatha

murmohk1 · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:04 pm

Sujatha,

What were you trying to do? Which langauge/util had thrown this.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:36 pm

A search for "USER ABEND" is misleading;

since the name says everything "USER ABEND" means exactly that

any user program can issue a user abend and there is no guarantee whatsoever about user abend code uniqueness

The best thing to do is identify clearly the product component involved

the same user abend as seen in a dump will certainly mean different things for different programs

SUJATHAA · New User Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 7 Location: CHENNAI

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

Exactly it is a set of cobol programs which is used to communicate between a tool and DB2.

I got this abend along with the VSAM return code 37. that is bad file open.

So do you mean to say that user abend is product depended ?

Regards
Sujatha

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:51 pm

SUJATHAA · New User Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 7 Location: CHENNAI

Thanks for the reply.
Will try again and get back with some valuable data

Regards
Sujatha