Over the last several decades, the number one cause of head scratcher issues
with COBOL and LE is the mixing of levels of COBOL. Specifically, the COBOL
runtimes.
The books clearly and strongly state that there can be one and only one source
of COBOL runtimes, and that is the LE runtime library. No other can exist where
the program can get to them.
No, you may not concatenate runtime libraries, nor may you override search
sequences via JCL. You must also be sure that very old COBOL modules have been
relinked to delete any old runtimes. The search sequence documented in the JCL
manual is just a default. Applications are free to modify that search any way
they choose.
Yes, yes, I know that you have tested concatenations and overrides and it works
for you. As IBM is fond of saying, 'the results are unpredictable' and being
unpredictable includes being seemingly successful tests.
So, get out the COBOL and LE conversion guides and follow those instructions.
HTH and good luck
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Pommier, Rex R.
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 10:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: strange issues with LE abending, looking for pointers as to where to
even look..
Hi list,
I just got a call from an applications programmer. They're having some strange
issues showing up in LE with programs abending with S0C4 and S0C7 abends, but
not where they've seen before.
For example, yesterday, they received a S0C7 in a job. They reran the job
using the same inputs and it ran clean. But the abend didn't give them any
indication as to what was happening. Here's the JES log of the abend.
+CEE0374C CONDITION=CEE3207S TOKEN=00030C87 59C3C5C5 00000000 649
WHILE RUNNING PROGRAM UNKNOWN
AT THE TIME OF INTERRUPT
PSW 078D1000 80093EAA
GPR 0-3 8708D300 0007F98C C7D14040 00BFF048
GPR 4-7 8007F978 00093EA8 0007F98C 000941B0
GPR 8-B 000942E0 00094B00 0008B068 0006FD28
GPR C-F 0007F828 0007F9CC 00000000 00000000
IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT 662
SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=0C7 REASON CODE=00000000
TIME=05.48.39 SEQ=02747 CPU=0000 ASID=0060
PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 070C0000 80D0F35E ILC 6 INTC 07
NO ACTIVE MODULE FOUND
NAME=UNKNOWN
DATA AT PSW 00D0F358 - F933908C 30044740 C8389180
GR 0: 00000880 1: 000B0780
2: 01DFB680 3: 0708D4B0
4: 00FDD858 5: 00093EA8
6: 0007F98C 7: 0000001B
8: 01F97D80 9: 0708D448
A: 0008B068 B: 01DFAFE8
C: 80D0EE60 D: 084C7E70
E: 0000030B F: 00000000
END OF SYMPTOM DUMP
IEF450I USACU011 S0015GSI - ABEND=S0C7 U0000 REASON=00000000
-S0015GSI *S0C7 700 1340 .00 .00 .0
The abend this morning was a S0C4 with the same symptoms. S0C4 "while running
program unknown". PSW is 'no active module found". They just restarted the
job at the abending step and it ran fine. Environment is z/OS 1.10 and IDMS
release 17. Batch COBOL calling IDMS.
Any ideas as to where to even start looking?
Thanks.
Rex
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