On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 12:24:40 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Don't want to beat this thing to death but FWIW I meant "ABEND" in the sense >I hear it usually used: to abnormally end, to blow up, to go kaput. When >someone says "payroll ABENDed last night" they typically in my experience >don't mean it took an ESTAE exit and recovered transparently. They mean it >went ka-boom. That is the sense in which I meant "ABEND not acceptable to >management." I did not mean that they would care one way or the other >whether the program used ESTAE and a recovery routine internally and fairly >transparently. > Yes, but some OCD-afflicted IS managers employ wonks to:
o Discover ABENDs logged then recovered by ESTAE to investigate as process failures. o Accesses routinely prohibited by RACF to investigate as intrusion attempts. At one point, in Rexx on CMS, I tried an operation requiring a privileged class, falling back to limited operation on failure. I was investigated. o Investigate RC=4 from SMP/E utilities. And Sx37 retry. Etc. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
