I always thought it was the hex just sort of seemed "system-like" and decimal numbers were, you know, for those COBOL types. <g>
I always wondered why did they put two more or less mutually-exclusive data in two different 12-bit fields? If they had devoted 11 bits to the ABEND code and one bit to system versus user, we could have had ABEND codes ranging up to S7FFFFF or U8388607. Whether that would have been good or bad I will leave as an exercise for the reader. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 1:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: System vs. user ABEND codes Experience (and http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_4.1.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.r esourcedefinition.doc/macros/srt/system.html?cp=SSGMCP_4.1.0%2F12-9-1-3-8-1) make it clear that system ABEND codes are hex and user codes are decimal. Why? Or is this lost in the mists of time? It's not like OS/360 end-users were going to understand U1234 better than U4D2! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
