handle asra abend

praleo · New User Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

how to handle asra abend ? ...
for password field how to set asteriks instead of the value entered?

ovreddy · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject:

CICS issues an ASRA abend code when it detects that a program check has occurred within a transaction. Program checks can occur for a wide variety of reasons, but you can find the nature of the error from the program interrupt code in the program status word (PSW). The PSW is used by the machine hardware to record the address of the current instruction being executed, the addressing mode, and other control information. The PSW gives you the address at which the program check occurred, and so it represents a record of the circumstances of the failure.

ATTRB of DFHMDF can be used to Dark the field while entering data

Eg:
PASSWD DFHMDF POS=(12,31),LENGTH=^8, *
ATTRB=(FSET,DRK)

The following manual can help you in finding offset address and finding instruction, which is caused an ABEND.

http://examples.oreilly.com/cics/CDROM/pdfs/cicsts/dfhs100.pdf

Bye,
Reddy.