How to find the record which caused the ABBEND

kalyanraju · New User Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 2

Hai Friends,

I am kalyan,I am new to mainframes and let me know one thing if i am having one millions of records which is processing and it had been abbended, how to find out in which record it had abbended and we should not use any third party tools or ABBEND AID,How to proceed using program,please let me no.....

Thanking u,
kalyan[/b]

khamarutheen · Active Member Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 677 Location: NJ

hi ,

Really the question is good. and i think as per my exp. some user defined abends can use it. and the o/p queue message... so this are the way.. there may be some other ways.. let us know if any of our posts.

sunnybunny · New User Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 49

Hi Kalyan,

I think its not possible to find out the exact record location where it abends with out using the tool.

But by checking the check point value intermediately like every 1000
u can find the location.

Cheers
Sunny.

mak_tcs · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:32 pm

Hi Kalyan,

Atleast U may be knowing at which step, the Program Abends. So just put a display statement before the particular step and know the record.

If U dont have any idea of the abend step, then periodically put as many Display statements as u can in the program and locate the abend step first. then u try displaying the record at the particular step.

The problem wud have been much simpler if u cud use tool like XP editor!!

Thanks,
Mani

iknow · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:00 pm

Hi kalyanraju,

In order to know which program has abended just go to SDSF screen and in the command prompt issue this command FILTER.

Example

In the command prompt just say FIL ON then it will set FILTER to ON.

FIL MAX 'ABENDS', it will issue all the jobs taht are abended.
FIL MAX 'RC0', it will issue all the jobs whose RC is ZERO.

Likewise you can make use of FILTER to optimise your search and identify the program.

NOTE

Using FILTER command you can only get the programs which has abended and not the exact location.
To my knowledge without using any TOOLS and to get the solution to your
query is to make use of DISPLAY statement then and there in your program and identify the error.

Let me know in case of any concerns.

srinathangya · New User Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 77

Hi Klayan,
Just try with LIST/OFFSET/TEST compiler option while submitting Ur JCL.
This will actually give U the detail like
1) which record caused the abend
2) filed Names and the values moved to them
3) Name of the abend that occured like S0C4, S0C7 etc..
thats it..
Srinath

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Srinath,

Although this is probably an interview ques, using TEST w/a million rec file would present subtstatial o'head.

You can go into the dump and find the rec being processed at the time of abend, but it's somewhat involved and you need to know a little Assembler.

If you don't mind cheating a little

you can use READ INTO in place of
READ and precede the INTO field w/an "eyecatcher". You may also want to include a read count routine in your pgm.

E.G.

01 IP-rec-area.
05 eye-catch1 pic x(018) value 'IP REC STARTS HERE'.
05 IP-REC.
.
.

01 IP-cnt-area.
05 eye-catch2 pic x(018) value 'IP CNT STARTS HERE'.
05 ip-cnt pic 9(008) value zero.

READ IP-FILE INTO IP-REC
ADD 1 TO IP-CNT

Now look in the dump for the eyecatchers.

sureshtmca · New User Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

Hi,

whatever may be the compiler options, in JCL change your output dataset disposition as disp=(new,catlg,catlg). so though there is an abend the output dataset will be catalogued and then you can see at which record it abended.

Hope this will clear this question.

Thanks,

Suresh[/b]

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Suresh,

I forgot all about that. Good point. Sometimes though the connection between the IP & OP can be obscure.

But it's a good thing to keep in mind.