Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

[Gary Sparkes]

On 12/30/05 3:41 PM, "Bryan Pope" <bpope at wordstock.com> wrote:
>> 6.  Batch the deck up with the necessary JCL and submit it with any other
>> tapes, etc. at the I/O desk.
> 
> JCL - Job Control Language?
> 

Yes.

>> 
>> 7.  Barring problems, a few hours later, your deck, etc.  will be delivered
>> back to your desk with the abend dump that invariably seemed to result.
>> 
> 
> What is "abend"?

ABnormal END
Basically, your program crashed for some reason, you could say
Something like a missing DASD or the wrong volume names could cause it, or
just an error in programming

At least, that's what I remember it is, and an abend dump is like a core
dump or crash dump on your modern system.

If I'm wrong, please don't hesitate to shoot at the youngster :)