Re: sigexcp

SIGEXCP does not send *ESCAPE messages - it signals an exception (an MI
concept) which may or not be converted to *ESCAPE message.
x'9898' is not message ID - this is exception ID.
QMHPDEH does not know what to do with your exception x'9898'.

You have no problems with MCH messages, because exception IDs are just
happen to nicely match MCH message IDs.

    Alexei Pytel





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I am/was hoping to use SIGEXCP as a light weight way to halt a pgm in an
manner similar to ASSERT in C. Where the pgm does not monitor for the
exception, causing the default exception handler to kick in and send a
CPF9999 to the pgm.

But SIGEXCP  CMP('CPF') ExcpId(X'9898')  results in a CPF2524 ( msg text
below ) being sent to the pgm.  Apparently QMHPDEH has a problem with my
exception msg.

Is is possible to send a CPF msg with SIGEXCP?

I can send an MCH msg ok, but the MCH msg must be an existing msg id.  Are
there any user reserved MCH msg identifiers?

It looks like there is less code needed to callx to the send msg api than
to fill the SIGEXCP template, so SIGEXCP is turning out to be a dead end,
but I am still interested in knowing the answer.

Thanks,

Steve Richter


Here is the CPF2524 msg that my pgm receives:

 Message . . . . :   Exception handler not available because of reason code
1.

 Cause . . . . . :   An error condition was found when an exception was
sent.
   The condition did not allow exception processing to complete normally.
The
   reason code within the message identifies the condition that was found.
   Possible values for the reason code and their meanings are as follows:
   Reason Code 1: an exception was signaled directly by using the SIGEXCP
     instruction. The exception was not handled and QMHPDEH was called. The
     exception message had compare data that did not allow QMHPDEH to
convert
     the exception into an MCH escape exception.



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