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J. Erickson
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One our production FOCUS batch jobs just abended with a S0C6 reason code 6. The active module was HLFUNC. This has been happening with a few jobs for the past couple years. We usually just restart from the top and the job runs fine the 2nd time. Don't recall every seeing 2 S0C6 abends in a row on the same job.

MVS/QuickRef doesn't give much all that much info on S0C6. Googled HLFUNC and S0C6 and found 2 posts on a website mentioning this abend and something about increasing some setting for lines on print output. Anyone experience this abend before or know if there's something in either JCL or a FOCUS setting that can be changed to prevent this S0C6 abend from occurring?

The job prints a report to an OFFLINE DD which then goes out to SAR on our system. The only parms on OFFLINE are SYSOUT=S,LRECL=172.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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Tom Flynn
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J. Erickson,

Haven't worked on the mainframe this century!!! SAR as a report library, you have taken me back!!!

Found this on a search for MVS ABEND CODES:

http://mainframesindia.com/references/a29.html


S0C6

An attempt was made to execute a machine instruction which had invalid operands.

Possible causes & Solution:

1. The program fields and/or data sets were incorrectly defined.
2. A multiplier or divisor was too large.
3. A subscript or index contained an invalid value.
4. A JCL DD statement was either invalid or missing.
5. The blocksize and record size were specified as equal for variable length records.
6. An attempt was made read/write to an unopened data set.
7. An attempt was made to read after end-of-file.
8. A stop run occurred before all opened data sets were closed.
B.In the input or output procedure of a sort.
9. An attempt was made to reference an input/output area, but no open or read had occurred for the data set.
10. Invalid parameters were passed through the linkage section.
11. The file-control select clause was missing for the data set that was being processed.


Tom Flynn
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J. Erickson
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I've looked through all the possible causes and none seem applicable for these FOCUS batch jobs.

Also, these abends are pretty rare. 95% of the time these jobs run fine. Anyone else ever experience this abend with FOCUS batch jobs in particular?

Trying to think of any other info that might prove useful to post...

This job does not have a REGION parm coded and our standard REGION settings are everything below the 16 meg line and up to 32 megs above the line unless REGION is coded on the job card.

The IEF374I message for the FOCUS step shows:

IEF374I STEP/FOCUS /STOP 2007214.0731 CPU 14MIN 38.60SEC SRB 0MIN 07.04SEC VIRT 3116K SYS 680K EXT 53864K SYS 24040K

Maybe it just needed a little more memory on this particular run. Just making a guess...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks


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