> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
>
> >On the z/OS side, consider that OPEN has (yet, after 4
> decades) no way to report an error to the caller other than
> "just crashing".
>
> And, what would an application after a failed open, that didn't abend?
Why, issue messages, of course:
"OPEN failed for <file name>[, RC=xx, RSN=yy]."
"0 records processed."
-jc-
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