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[linkingpark]

I'd like to know why ASRA abend is not caught by the HANDLE ABEND.
What are all the types of ABENDS can it handle then?

[Manas Biswal]

linkingpark,

Go through this link if you have not gone through it before. Although it does not specifically address ASRA, but it does talk about some abends being not intercepted by the HANDLE ABEND command.

May prove useful to you.

http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Library/documentation/txseries/4.2/aix/en_US/html/erzhai/erzhai37.htm

Regards,
Manas

[linkingpark]

Thanks Manas. I've found out the answer....The HANDLE ABEND can catch all Abends except S0C Abends and ASRA is one such Abend which cannot be handled by HANDLE ABEND.

[Manas Biswal]

linkingpark,

I knew beforehand that HANDLE ABEND cannot handle SOC abends. Infact no CICS handle commands like HANDLE CONDITION, HANDLE ABEND or IGNORE CONDITION can intercept SOC abends because of the fact that they are not CICS command errors but COBOL abends. But ASRA is a abend issued by CICS. The reason may be data exception but it is distinctly different from SOC, which is a COBOL abend.
I am still not sure on why CICS cannot intercept this ASRA abend. maybe somebody else can throw a little light on this.

Regards,
Manas

[Dibakar]

I read somewhere, unfortunately that link is not working, that HANDLE ABEND cannot handle ASRA caused due to segmentation violation. But didn't find any topic mentioning that it cannot handle ASRA at all.