I am curious to know if any  MVS sites  are using the SAS default option
of  NOERRORABEND.    From what I have found so far,  all  (or almost all)
MVS sites  change this option to  ERRORABEND.
I AM ALSO TRYING TO DETERMINE WHAT KIND OF SERIOUS ERRORS MIGHT BE IGNORED
WHEN  NOERRORABEND  IS IN EFFECT.
For example,  I know that when I run a batch job that writes to a disk
output file,  and the file runs out of space,   SAS will continue
processing like nothing happened  IF  NOERRORABEND  is specified.
If you know of other situations on MVS where NOERRORABEND  can cause
critical errors to go unnoticed,  please let me know.

Thanks.

Hmmmm...I don't think I've ever worked anywhere where ERRORABEND was the
default.

Are you sure that SAS continues processing normally if a disk file runs
out of space?  I think it enters "syntax check" mode and runs the rest
of the code but with OBS=0 (or something much like that).  The job ends
with a return code of 8, so you're definitely given warning that
_something_ went wrong.  NOERRORABEND does not in and of itself cause a
return code of 0 in the presence of critical errors, it simply controls
whether the job immediately terminates.

There are definitely situations where I want to override our
NOERRORABEND default (e.g., the job creates a new GDG or other dataset
which I don't wish to catalog in the event of an error), but I've never
found a situation where something meaningful has been overlooked because
of NOERRORABEND.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Jerry Prarat
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: NOERRORABEND option ON OS390 (MVS)
>
>
> I am curious to know if any  MVS sites  are using the SAS
> default option
> of  NOERRORABEND.    From what I have found so far,  all  (or
> almost all)
> MVS sites  change this option to  ERRORABEND.
> I AM ALSO TRYING TO DETERMINE WHAT KIND OF SERIOUS ERRORS
> MIGHT BE IGNORED
> WHEN  NOERRORABEND  IS IN EFFECT.
> For example,  I know that when I run a batch job that writes to a disk
> output file,  and the file runs out of space,   SAS will continue
> processing like nothing happened  IF  NOERRORABEND  is specified.
> If you know of other situations on MVS where NOERRORABEND  can cause
> critical errors to go unnoticed,  please let me know.
>
> Thanks.