What is the exact meaning of ABEND

thulasipathy · New User Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 1

Hi All,
What is an exat meaning for "error code" & "abend" ?

Regards,
Thulasi.

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:11 pm

Abend means "Abnormal End". When a job ends without completing successfully, in Tech terms it is an ABEND.

Error Code- is the value produced after the ABEND.
Like, SYSTEM ABEND CODES, USER ABEND CODES, Condition Codes etc.

Regards,
Priyesh.

sachina2z · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:17 pm

What is the exact difference between "System abends" and "User abends"

Can u give me a list of abends in both categories?

Mr.Niceguy · New User Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 63

Hi,

System Abends such as S001,S013,S806,S804,Sb37,d37,e37.

User Abends:U0457 The same program is being run in two different jobs concurrently.

U0844 Production database out of space.

Bye

Mr.Niceguy · New User Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 63

Hi,

Error occurs before the execution of JOB or STEP. The submitted work can be rejected before the execution and this is called JCL error. ie., syntax error.

But Abnormal termination (Abend) happens during the execution of a program in a step. There may some invalid operation, the operation that cannot be executed by the system in the program. When OS encounters such an operation, the respective JOB is terminated with the ABEND code as I mentioned above.

Bye

stly · New User Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 93

Error occurs before the execution of the job

Abend occurs during the execution of the job

correct me if i am incorect

khannay2k · New User Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Bangalore

Hey,

Still not very clear about the diff b/w System abend and User Abend, can any one explain the functionality with/with out example.

Khanna.

Vijaya Baskar · New User Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Chennai

Hi,

Please refer to
www.theamericanprogrammer.com/programming/abend-codes.shtml to get more details on User and System Abends.