Re: Stop Run vs GoBack


"Michael Mattias" <mmattias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:55:30 GMT, "Charles Hottel"
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One place I worked used CALL 'ABEND'. Of course the ABEND module did
not
exist.

One place I worked at had a module to call to abend which simply did a
divide by zero. (Damn, I wish I were bright enough to have thought of
that!)

Apparently setting return codes in COBOL and using them in JCL is just too
difficult for some programmers... the programmers who also find it
difficult to fart and chew gum at the same time.

MCM



Yeah I have seen that divide by zero trick.


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