Required additions to the ODF started address space JCL procedure (z/OS)

These JCL changes are required to avoid ABEND conditions.

About this task

On z/OS®, the Language Environment® runtime services that are run within an ODF Started Address Space reference the following JCL DDNAMEs:
  • CEEDUMP
  • CEESNAP
  • SYSERR
  • SYSOUT
  • SYSPRINT
  • SYSTERM

Each of these DDNAMEs must be statically allocated as DD DUMMY in the JCL procedure that is associated with dynamically started ODF address spaces.

If any of these named DD statements is not statically allocated, then Language Environment attempts to dynamically allocate the DD as a SYSOUT. This, in turn, can cause multiple ABEND conditions to occur in both the ODF started address space in which the dynamic allocation was performed and in the JES address space. Typical ABENDs are S013-0C0, S001, S614, and S0C4. These failures might also be accompanied by HASP708 error messages.