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Chapter 4 Run-Time System Messages
Introduction
The errors described in this chapter are reported by the run-time system
(RTS) and may occur when you submit your source code to your COBOL system
to produce intermediate code, when running ANIMATOR, when producing
generated code, or when running one of your own COBOL programs.
Note that some of these messages are environment dependent, and so your
particular environment may not support them all.
An RTS error is returned on a program that is syntactically correct and
occurs when problems are encountered during the actual running of the
code. You could receive such an error if you attempt to access a file in
the wrong mode or if you use a corrupt file. RTS errors are thus
environment dependent and their handling depends very much upon the
situation in which they occur.
Your COBOL system displays these messages in one of the following two
formats:
Run time error number: nnn
[Error accessing file: filename programname
segment: ss error nnn at COBOL PC xxxxH
[Description: textdescription]
where:
nnn is the error number
filename is the name of any failing data file. It will
be "?" if the filename is not known
programname is the name of the program being executed
ss is the number of the segment being executed (RT
for ROOT)
xxxx is the position of the program counter, in
hexadecimal
textdescription is a description of the error
In the second format, the first optional line is output only if the error
occurred during COBOL I/O. The second optional line is output only if the
file RTS.ERR is available in an open library.