HP 3000 Manuals

HP SYSTEM DICTIONARY XL UTILITIES-Part 2 SDDBC

Job Control Word 

Upon exiting from SDDBC, the Job Control Word (JCW) is set according to
the termination condition of the system:

     0 - Program terminated normally with EXIT
     FATAL - Program terminated abnormally before an EXIT

This allows the batch mode user to test for the termination condition and
act accordingly.

JCW is set to FATAL (equivalent to -32768) whenever the system must
terminate before executing an EXIT statement.  This can occur under the
following circumstances:

 *  The number of errors encountered exceeded the number specified by the
    user.

 *  A fatal MPE file system error was encountered.

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