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rajkumarprajapati
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Post by rajkumarprajapati » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:36 am

for delete a record from input file which is causing SOC7,
Is it necessary to copy input file from production to testing environment?
OR We can do it in production environment itself.

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Post by Natarajan » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:53 pm

As i already answered in other thread.
Normally, client wont allow us to deleted any production data.

If you get client approval on that, delete it in production itself.


otherwise... copy production data to development and and delete that
record and reload production file with development file ( if client is ok with that )
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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:44 pm

Actually it's more likely should be answered from Your Shop Management - what kind of policies do you have comes into picture here?
for delete a record from input file which is causing SOC7,
How do you conclude that deleting is the only solution?

S0C7 is an error that means you had a check exception while your job was executing. Most often this error occurs because of spaces being moved into a packed decimal field. It can also occur if you move this to a numeric field. Somewhere you are mismatching data that is causing this to crash, you can also go through your job dump to find the exact line causing the crash to determine where in your code this needs to be corrected.

None of these says- delete some data.. :?, unless 'am I missing some more reasons..

Well, again, this error should never occur in production, as this often can occur in test while your mainframe code is being tested for the first time.
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Anuj

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