Multiple choice technology databases

B37 abend during SPUFI is due to

  1. Space Issues

  2. Data Issues

  3. No records found while querying the table

  4. Both a & b
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Explanation

B37 abend is a specific error code in mainframe systems indicating a DASD space issue - the dataset or work file has run out of space during SPUFI (SQL Processor Using File Input) execution. Data issues or missing records would result in different error codes like SQLCODEs, not B37.

AI explanation

A B37 abend on z/OS occurs when a job runs out of allocated space on the DASD volume while trying to write to a dataset — most commonly hit during SPUFI when the output dataset's primary and secondary space allocations are both exhausted. It's a space-allocation problem, not a data-content or no-rows-found issue, which would surface as different error conditions entirely.

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