COBOL · CICS abend code

CICS ASRA

What does CICS ASRA mean in COBOL?

Program check exception. The most common CICS abend, functionally the same thing as a batch S0C7: an arithmetic or data-movement operation ran against invalid data, most often a packed-decimal field holding spaces or otherwise non-numeric content.

CICS ASRACICS Transaction Server

Condition

Program check exception. The most common CICS abend, functionally the same thing as a batch S0C7: an arithmetic or data-movement operation ran against invalid data, most often a packed-decimal field holding spaces or otherwise non-numeric content.

Fix

Check for spaces or uninitialized values in a packed-decimal field involved in the failing statement, and check for a record or file layout that changed without every program reading it being recompiled against the new copybook.

Pending source verification. Not yet checked against official documentation.

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