What is an ASRA abend ?
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Answer / guest
this is the most common abend in CICS . it indicates a
program check execption , roughly equivalent to having an
soc7 in a batch program. check for spaces in a packed
decimal numeric field and changes to the file and records
layouts.
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Answer / bharath
ASRA IS JUST LIKE SOC-7 IN COBOL.IT SHOULD BE RESOLVE LIKE SOC7.......
DUE TO DATA EXCEPTION CASE IT WILL OCCUR....
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Answer / prabu
ASRA though commonly interpretted as equivalent of S0C7 is
not usually the case. Yes, it is equivalent to S0C7 in
certain cases but a S0C4 or S0C1 would also issue an ASRA
abend
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