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Abend

Informal; to end a project or process prematurely. This term is used especially in computer-related projects. It is a portmanteau of "abnormal end."

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MAINVIEW SRM StopX37/II anticipates space shortages and proactively prevents or recovers from abends, allowing jobs to complete successfully the first time.

BMC DEBUTS THREE NEW MAINVIEW SRM SOLUTIONS FOR MAINFRAMES

I used to get quite a few ABEND S 213s, which meant that a certain data set needed to run the program could not be found.

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Ungefahr 52% der Mahlzeiten (1,7 Milliarden) wurden in der Mittagszeit gegessen, 48% ara Abend.

In dieser Ausgabe WICHTIGE TIEFKUHLKOST-NEWS

Both releases feature expanded batch abend diagnostic capabilities, including a central repository that automatically stores abend reports in a central location, thereby enabling technicians to quickly zero in on relevant diagnostic details and simplifying analysis of information about application failures.

CA Enhances Diagnostics Solutions To Speed Troubleshooting of z/OS and OS/390 Applications; Central Abend Repository and Enhanced Symbolic Information Help Programmers Pinpoint and Correct Errors

Whether it is a transaction abend, storage violation, application deadlock, or region outage, CICS Abend-AID/FX ensures that programmers have immediate, online access to vital information.

Compuware Announces Day One Support for CICS Transaction Server 1.3

Watson'-like trouble shooting information provided on abends, and distributed object environment (CORBA/DCOM) support, to name but a few.

Fujitsu Software Corporation Announces Fujitsu COBOL for Microsoft Windows 2000

XPEDITER/CICS is a full-screen, source-level testing and debugging product that gives CICS specialists and systems programmers the advanced capabilities required for finding and fixing logic errors, abends, and storage violations in COBOL, Assembler, and PL/I programs in the CICS environment.

Compuware's XPEDITER/CICS Extends Production Debugging Capabilities

In-depth introduction to the NetWare(R) OS, its inner workings & how NetWare manages applications -- NetWare's memory management -- Preparing for critical server issues for fast & accurate diagnosis -- Troubleshooting fundamentals -- Understanding ABENDs -- Debugging Hardware- and Software-detected ABENDs -- Tools and utilities

Novell's Guide to Resolving Critical Server Issues; Novell's New Book Helps Administrators Save the Day

When processing transaction abends compiled with a language/version that

Compuware's CICS Abend-AID/FX Release 3.1 Provides Enhanced Fault Management Support

Server Sentry includes a pager notification module that can be configured to notify a network administrator when a user-definable number of ABENDS occur.

Citadel Offers Server Sentry 6.5: The "Intelligent" Server Management Tool; Allows Users To Save Work And Logout In The Event Of A Crash

In these complex distributed environments, faults can take the form of abends, access violations, application deadlocks, data exceptions, error signals, storage overlays, storage violations, segmentation violations or transaction errors.

COMPUWARE INTRODUCES FIRST FAULT MANAGEMENT PRODUCTS FOR CLIENT/SERVER

Provide runtime parameter type checking allowing applications to safeguard against server abends and abnormal termination due to type mismatch errors.