REPLY option on CALL statement

[jcro...@migratetech.com]

VAGen 4.5+fp3
A customer is coding the REPLY option on all CALL statements in their Web
Trans.
All programs are generated for CICS MVS.
Should control be returned to the Web Tran when CICS or CSO encounters
errors (e.g PGMIDERR, passed parameter discrepancies) ? The CSO error
handling appears to take control and displays the CSOERRORUIR.
Can anyone please clarify under what conditions the REPLY option actioned in
an MVS CICS environment ?

Thanks,

John.

[Mark Evans]

John,

I don't know all of the considerations, but the reply option should only take
affect if the CALL cannot find the program that is being called (like a program
id error, or load module not found). In this case, I would not expect a CSO
error message from the web transaction. It would be up to you to check EZERT8
and try to determine the error.

If something like the parameter list is incorrect, then you will most likely get
an ABEND and this will not give control back to the calling program. Instead,
the CSO code will detect the ABEND and display a message. This would be true
for any other circumstances that an ABEND or uncaught runtime error occurs in
the called program.

Mark Evans

[jcro...@migratetech.com]

Mark,
Thanks for the response, I'll raise a PMR,
Regards,
John.

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