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Snap Report

The Snap report lets you view a snapshot of a program's data areas from various points of execution without forcing the program to abend. Each report is produced by calling the snap interface program, CAODSNAP, from any COBOL, PL/I, or Assembler program. Much of the information in this report is similar to the information provided in an abend report; however, only the most active program (the one which called CAODSNAP) is included in the report.

Note: Each call to CAODSNAP generates a separate Snap report in your central VSAM repository. If your program contains multiple snap calls (or a snap call within a loop), you may want to write the output to the CAIPRINT DD alone, to avoid flooding the repository. For more information, see the PRTREPT option in the chapter "Using Options."