Not sure if this is your problem, but as shown, your X'8000000' constant doesn't have enough zeros. (It should be X'80000000'.)
At 11:45 PM 3/12/2007, Steve Comstock wrote: >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. ================================================== Art Celestini Celestini Development Services Phone: 201-670-1674 Wyckoff, NJ ============= http://celestini.com ============= Mail sent to the "From" address used in this post will be rejected by our server. Please send off- list email to: ibmmain<at-sign>celestini<dot>com. ================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
