Steve, First of all, I assume the x'8000000' was a typo and you really meant x'80000000'.
Is it possible that this CGI is running in ASCII-land? If so, do you have to translate the text of the alloc statement to EBCDIC first? If not, what is the hex representation of the bracket characters? Would be handy to see the code segment around the call to make sure that you are not having a senior moment :-) Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi_g2 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: 12 March 2007 23:46 To: [email protected] Subject: BPXWDYN problem OK, so I'm writing this CGI in Assembler to access a VSAM file [seemed like a fun thing to do]. The program is reentrant and LE-conforming. To allocate the file, I want to call BPXWDYN, but I'm having all kinds of troubles. You can't really CALL, you should LINK. So, I set the parm up as R1 --> a(alloc)+x'8000000' where alloc is alloc ds 0cl62 dc h'60' dc cl60'alloc dd(meals) dsn(stnt329.train.meals) shr reuse' then I LINK EP=BPXWDYN but I get, in R15: FFFFFFEC which is -21 decimal The doc says this is a "key error" (it uses this term "key" a lot and never defines it, I notice), for the first "key". But it looks good to me. [I've also tried it all upper case; I've also tried it double-quoted inside the single quotes, both upper-case and lower-case; always this result.] Anyone have any hints, suggestions, solutions? TIA for any help. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- to be included in our opt-in list of announcements of -- new courses and other products and services from The -- Trainer's Friend, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
