Tom,
Just for grins ... what happens when you issue the command with ",L=Z"
added?
"CONSOLE SYSCMD(D U,TAPE,ALLOC,L=Z) CART('DUDASD')"Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Sipusic Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 06:23 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: GETMSG RC=4 after going from z/0S 1.7 from 1.4 Tom Sipusic wrote: > REXX execs in TSO batch issuing operator commands and reading the > returned messages have started failing to get the messages most but > not all of the time now that we have gone to z/OS 1.7. For instance: > > [snip] > 18 *-* "CONSOLE SYSCMD(D U,TAPE,ALLOC) CART('DUDASD')" > >>> "CONSOLE SYSCMD(D U,TAPE,ALLOC) CART('DUDASD')" > 19 *-* GETCODE = GETMSG('MSG.','SOL','DUDASD',,99) > >>> "4" > > Up until z/OS 1.7, the GETCODE return code would always be zero even > with the wait time coded as 5 instead of the 99 seconds I have > specified here. The SYSLOG shows > [snip] > Does anyone have an idea of how to remedy this? After further investigation, it seems that "D U" commands with the ALLOC parameter might be the only ones for which I can't get the associated messages. Tom Sipusic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
