Chen,

I have most often seen this in a program that is trying to put data into a
table, where no table entry exists, like position zero or something.  If you add
BOUNDS to your $CONTROL line, you should get a more understandable error telling
you exactly what is happening, and where in the code it is.  Give that a try and
see what you get.

Good Luck,

Shawn Gordon

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Subject: COBOL ERROR
Author:  [log in to unmask] at Internet-Mail
Date:    7/1/98 12:40 AM


Hi friends,

I had a Native Mode COBOL program running without any problem for
months, but suddenly one day went into error. The program is just doing
some reading turbo-image database.

:RUN SPN010E.NEWPROG


**** INTERNAL TRAP
Data PAGE Fault
[VSM] Invalid Pointer Error
ABORT: SPN010E.NEWPROG.SPN
NM PROG  129c.0000812c szspn01+$4fc

Program terminated in an error state. (CIERR 976)

>>>>>

Any comments will be much appreciated.

TIA.
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