What do you do to resolve SOC-7 error?

- Offending data need to be corrected
- The main cause for SOC-7 error is un-initialized numeric item. Focus on examining on this.
- Lot of installations provide a dump for run time abends, and these abends provide the offset which is returned by the last instruction where the abend occurred.
- Focus on examining the compilation output XREF listing to find the verb and the line number within the source code at this offset.
- Later investigate the source code for finding the bug
- Define certain datasets(SYSABOUT etc) in JCL, for capturing runtime dumps
- At times few installations might have batch program debugging tool. Utilize them to resolve the issue.