Table of Contents

Understanding Termination Messages

Using Log Information

Specifying the Information to Be Logged

Controlling Job Summary Printing

Saving the Job Summary File

Analyzing the System Log

Programmatically Interrogating Process History

Determining the Type of Termination

Determining Whether a Compilation Was Successful

Responding to Task Failures

Determining Where a Fault Occurred

Protecting a Process from Abnormal Terminations

Preventing All Abnormal Terminations

Protection against Most Conditions

Protection against All Conditions

Including Multiple Statements

Determining the Cause of the Error

Using TRY as an Expression

Providing Alternate Sets of Error Handling Code

Optimizing Performance

Triggering Program Dumps

Protecting a Process from Faults

Retrying a Failed Task

Protecting a Process from Operator DS (Discontinue) Commands

Protecting Procedures from DS and ST Commands

Performing Cleanup during an Abnormal Termination

Interactions between Error Recovery Statements

Multiple TRY Statements

TRY Statements and Library Delinkage

TRY Statements and ON Statements

TRY Statements, EPILOG Procedures, and EXCEPTION Procedures

Controlling Program Dumps

Using Program Statements to Control Program Dumps

Using Operator Commands to Control Program Dumps

Controlling the Program Dump Destination

Using the Task File

Analyzing a Program Dump from a Running Process

Determining Whether a Dump is In Progress

Causing Symbolic Dumps for RPG Processes

Effect of Resource Limits on Program Dumps

Understanding Internal and External Causes