In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/16/2007
at 09:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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".
That's wrong; read up on the DCB exit list in general and on the ABEND
exit in particular. That goes all the way back to OS/360.
Of course, in the case of a missing DD statement you don't even need
the exit list; you just test DCBOFLGS,DCBOFOPN.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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