Kishore Sampat "Kish ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: while running a COBOL program.
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  If the program is a COBOL program, then it calls a PASCAL procedure or
  function that aborts since the error is a "PASCERR". That procedure/function
  may be in some library (group SL, acct SL system SL). Another possibility
  is that the program actually is a PASCAL program...
 
:  ****  DESIGNATED CHARACTER POSITION(S) OUTSIDE STRING (PASCERR 652)
 
  If the abort is intermittent, sounds like it is caused either by some
  uninitialized structure -or- it's handling some data that sometimes is
  larger "string" than the program expects and thus some pascal string
  operation goes outside the memory area allocated for the string in
  question.
 
  Unfortunately I haven't got an MPE/V machine to try and my V/E debug
  skills have gotten a bit rusty as it's been a while.  On MPE/iX I'd
  use breakpoint at P__PASCERROR or trap_handler or hperrpush...  to see
  where I fail... however, since you are on V/E...  maybe someone else
  can help you further.   Also, using a command :SETDUMP prior to running
  the program may get you a better stack trace when the problem occurs...
 
:~) Eero Laurila - HP CSY Networking lab.