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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:20:30 PST
- Reply-To: Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.BITNET>
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- From: Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Division by Zero in CMS
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- Lisa King <LMJY@CORNELLA> writes:
- > I've been off the list for a few months,
- > so please forgive me if this problem is old hat.
- You're forgiven! :-)
- You missed the following posting:
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- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 22:11:46 PST
- From: VM/CMS consulting test account <CONTEST@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
- Subject: CMS SAS 6.06 et. al. Divide by Zero. Reply (CMS Apar)
-
- Just saw the queries regarding divide-by-zero handling by SAS 6.06
- under VM/XA CMS. We ran into data set truncation and passed the problem
- to SAS Tech. support. As noted, the problem did not occur in 5.18 nor 6.07.
- The fix turned out to be the application of a CMS 'APAR' (see Encl. log).
- Bob Jamieson U. of Washington, Seattle, Wa. (206) 543-2877
- SAS: 6.601. maint 7/92; (6.07 TS301. maint 8/92; 5.18. maint 6/92)
- SYSTEM: IBM 3090. VM/XA CMS 5.6, Ser. Lev. 201 SP Rel. 21, Ser. Lev. 0202
- Encl. (systems log entry):
- 06/23 1345 Applied CMS APAR VM41384 (PTF UM14944) to fix a problem
- with passing an incorrect failing PSW address to an ESTAE
- exit routine. SAS detected this problem when attempting
- to fix a divide-by-zero exception.
-