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Incident: S806 after a library clean-up

INC21102 · 03:10 · MPSYS
PAGE 03:10 SEV3 - Job PAYRUN2 ended ABEND=S806 in step RUN
Change CHG31102 tidied PAYRUN2's JCL at 17:30

PAYRUN2 compiles, links and runs the payment totals program PAYTOTAL. Yesterday's change CHG31102 'tidied up' its JCL. Tonight the RUN step abended S806. Find out why and get a good run.

What you will do

  1. Read CSV003I and the abend
  2. Work out where the system looked for the program
  3. Fix the JCL and rerun

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