S0C4 abend when concatinating two datasets

prabhanjana p · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

MY JCL is using a cobol program, it reads a set of concatenated files and copies to an output GDG file. The S0C4 abend occurs when the first file has record and the next has ZERO records.

The cobol code tries to display the record after reading it from the input files.

When records are present in the second file there is no abend.
When given DUMMY in the place of second file( instead of ZERO records) the job concludes successfully.

I need to know the reason for the abend and If is there any fix in JCL for the same....

PS: The second concatinated file may of may not contain records.

gcicchet · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:57 am

Hi,

when the second file is empty, is it initialised ie does it have an end of file mark ?

Gerry

prabhanjana p · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

not sure abt it.....it collects data from previous step, which is a DB2 cobol program, since the quiery in the codes will not fetch the data for the required conditions, the file is left as it is untouched....

gcicchet · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:24 pm

Hi,

see link ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=14786&highlight=eof+mark

Gerry

prabhanjana p · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

I got the solution for the same....
The file needs to be initialized to be used for concatenating.
The JCL is working fine now.
Thank You.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:17 pm

you could also try using the WORK-AREA option when you READ.