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[Temujin]

Hello,

I have encountered a strange situation, below are the details.

I am using a sequential file in a cobol program. I opened it in output mode. But in the JCL, there was no DD name coded. Just after the OPEN statement, I have displayed the file-status. When I executed the job it went fine giving MAXRC = 0. And the file-status displayed was 35.

In the next run, i have just added the file operation WRITE (excpet this nothing was changed) and submitted the job. This time the job abended with S0C4, but to my surprise the displayed file-status was 96.

If the program failed at the WRITE statement why the previous statement i.e. display of the file status got affected?

The code looks like this:

OPEN OUTPUT FILE1.
DISPLAY "FILE STATUS IS: ' FILE-STATUS1.
WRITE OUTPUT-RECORD1.
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In the first run (there was no WRITE at this time, MAXRC = 0) the SYSOUT was

FILE STATUS IS: 35

In the second run (S0C4) it was

FILE STATUS IS: 96.

Can anybody explain me why the file status was changed from 35 to 96?

Thanks,
Temu.

[kolusu]

Temujin,

if you had looked up the file status codes you would have clearly understood the reason

file status 35 :