Has there been an abend?

If your application has stopped running, this could be caused by an abnormal termination (abend).

You are notified of an abend in one of the following places, depending on what type of application you are using:

Batch

Your listing shows the abend.

CICS

You see a CICS transaction abend message. If your task is a terminal task, this message appears on your screen. If your task is not attached to a terminal, the message appears on the CICS CSMT log.

IMS

In all cases, you see a message at the IMS master terminal and in the listing of the dependent region involved. If an IMS transaction that had been entered from a terminal was being processed, an error message is also sent to that terminal.

TSO

You might see a TSO message with a return code on your screen. (This depends on the way your system is set up, and the type of error.)