S806 abend in DYLDATE

Products

• Vision:Results

Issue/Introduction

What can cause an S806 abend in DYLDATE?

Resolution

DYLDATE is a routine originally provided as a supplement to DYL 280 with the add-on component DYL- SUBROUTINES which has been discontinued. 

The DYLDATE functionality was built into DYL 280 II, now known as VISION:Results and is accessed using the keyword DYLDATE rather than a CALL.
The DYLDATE routine was kept as such in DYL-Audit, now known as VISION:Excel.

So syntax such as "CALL DYLDATE 1K USING dataname." is valid under current product configurations if you have VISION:Excel, and the VISION:Excel loadlib is in the loadlib concatenation.

If you do not have VISION:Excel then you have two options:

1. We recommend using the DYLDATE keyword syntax built in to VISION:Results by simply recoding the program syntax from

                      CALL DYLDATE 1K USING dataname.          to                   MOVE DYLDATE    TO    dataname     

2. You could continue to use your old DYLDATE routine by concatenating your old loadlib behind the current release, or copying the DYLDATE routine into the VISION:Results 6.0 loadlib.
   Note this method is not preferred and the old routine is not supported.