I have a C++ program compiled with 

#pragma runopts( POSIX(ON),TRAP(ON,NOSPIE),NOEXECOPS )

I have my own ESTAEX. On an ABEND, if SDWACLUP is not set, I percolate,
presumably to LE's ESTAE and it drives my C Signal catcher.

It works. In testing, and at most customers, a S0Cx drives the Signal
routine, 100% of the time.

But one customer has twice gotten a S0C4 and in both cases we got an
old-fashioned SYSUDUMP with no Signal. I don't know if we came through the
ESTAEX exit or not. The ESTAE exit logic is not at all complex so some
subtle bug is unlikely. The reported S0C4 is in the main logic, not in the
ESTAE recovery. The fact that it is consistent at one customer leads me to
think it is an environmental factor, not a logic error.

There are no LE options in PARM= or CEEOPTS.

Environment is STC, current release of z/OS (not sure exact version but
probably V2R1).

What should I be looking for? What would effectively override TRAP(ON)?
Would SDWACLUP ever be set on a vanilla S0C4?

It's at a customer and the S0C4 is extremely infrequent so "try this/try
that" is not an option. Why my own ESTAE? So I can deal with unrecoverable
ABENDs, which LE will not. Why NOSPIE? So everything comes through the
ESTAE.

Charles 

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