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Incident: S0C7 in the overnight payment run

INC20871 · 02:00 · MPSYS
PAGE 02:00 SEV2 - Job PAYRUN ended ABEND=S0C7 in step RUN
Scheduler: PAYRUN ENDED-NOTOK, successors held

PAYRUN abended overnight. The input PROD.PAY.DAILY comes from the branches and you may not edit it. Find out why the program failed, fix the program so bad records are reported instead of crashing the run, and rerun.

What you will do

  1. Read the job log and the LE message
  2. Find the bad record
  3. Fix the program, rerun and report

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