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HCL Workload Automation for Z
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Diagnosis Guide and Reference
Diagnosis guide
Initial problem analysis
Problem-type keywords
ABEND

ABEND

Choose the ABEND keyword when the HCL Workload Automation for Z program comes to an abnormal end with a system abend code. You should also use ABEND when any program that services HCL Workload Automation for Z (for example, VTAM®) terminates it, and one of the following symptoms appears:

An abend message at an operator console. The abend message contains the abend code and is found in the system console log.
A dump is created in a dump data set.

If a message was issued, use the MSG keyword to document it. See Abnormal termination (ABEND or ABENDU) procedure to describe the problem.