RE: Creating a dump for looping program.

["Barton, Mike" <Mike.Barton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Hi,
>
>  Last night I was called by the application staff about one of their
>programs looping in batch.  They needed help getting stuff in order.  
>They asked me to cancel the batch job with a DUMP.  It was at this
point, I >realized that the only time I've created a dump was when a
program ABENDed >and there was a message wait.  The batch job is a CL
program that calls a >series of COBOL and COBOL/LE programs.  The
program that it was looping in >is OPM COBOL.  
>   So my question, is there a way to cancel a job and produce the
formatted >dump the programmers are accustomed to when I answer 'D' 
>or 'F' to a message wait.
>
>Thanks,
>m.

Your application staff did not think about this for very long as without
changing the program, this is quite difficult to achieve.

The only way I could think of doing this would be to somehow force the 
program to crash thereby giving you the dump option.
One possible way would be to start a service job, debug the program and
then
say, just before a divide operation (if there are any!), set the divisor
to zero...

In reality, they should perhaps deal with the problem themselves....

Mike