The InterTest for CICS Cobol demo program, COB2DEMO may result in a CICS abend with dump code SR0603.

Products

• InterTest - CICS

Issue/Introduction

When executing the InterTest for CICS IVP demo program COB2DEMO for the first time, it abends the CICS region instead of stopping program execution at the Automatic Break Point on the following line of code:

Add +1 to Task-num 

The CICS region terminates with messages:

DFHSR0603 Program interrupt has occurred

DFHDU0205 A SYSTEM DUMP FOR DUMPCODE: SR0603, WAS SUPPRESSED BY XDUREQ user exit.

DFHKE1800 ABNORMAL TERMINATION OF CICS IS COMPLETE.

 

Cause

System recovery in the CICS region was turned off due to having SRT=NO as a SIT override. 

Resolution

The IBM System Recovery Program, DFHSRP,  is invoked at abend time by specifying a System Recovery Table (SRT) in the CICS System Initialization Table (SIT) or as a SIT override.