RE: Is it possible to treat any message of the type MCH1202 generated by a program COBOL ?

I'm not aware of a way to trap the MCH1202 abend in the COBOL program. You just 
need to code your program to prevent them from occurring in the first place. 
Doing a numeric check on all un-trusted fields that are defined as COMP-3 
before you do math with them will prevent data decimal errors. 
Like so,
05 W-PACKED-NUM  PIC 9(05) COMP-3.
IF W-PACKED-NUM NUMERIC
    ADD +1 TO W-PACKED-NUM
ELSE
    DISPLAY "VALUE OF W-PACKED-NUM IS NOT NUMERIC"
    SET W-ERROR-SWITCH TO TRUE
END-IF

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Subject: RE: [COBOL400-L] Is it possible to treat any message of the type 
MCH1202 generated by a program COBOL ? 

It would be great if it's possible to get more information from the errors,
we had to deal with this error, an after a while we figured it out, it was
because a numeric field was receiving a null value on the screen. 

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Subject: [COBOL400-L] Is it possible to treat any message of the type
MCH1202 generated by a program COBOL ? 

Is it possible to intercept any message of the type MCH1202 generated by a
program COBOL ?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.