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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Chuck Arney
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 5:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: bad sample code?

Why?  If RETCODE is negative there was an error on the call and there is
no socket returned.

Chuck Arney
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Ward, Mike S
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: bad sample code?
> 
>       I was looking at the sample code(ezacicas) in sezainst listed
> below for cics sockets programming. The takesocket is supposed to
return
> the socket number in retcode+2 a halfword. If that's the case and
socket
> number 1 was returned in retcode+2 wouldn't the error check after the
> call be incorrect?
> 
>          CALL  EZASOKET,(SOCTSOCK,SOCKET_TO_TAKE,CLIENTID_LSTN,
X
>                ERRNO,RETCODE),VL,MF=(E,PARMLIST)
> *
>          L     R5,ERRNO           Check for successful call
>          L     R6,RETCODE         Check for successful call
>          MVC   MSGCMD,SOCTSOCK     Set the API name
>          C     R6,ZERO            Is it less than zero
>          BL    SOCERR             Yes, go display error and terminate
>          STH   R6,SRV_SOCKID      Save the taken socket descriptor
> 
> 
> Errno        ds    f
> Retcode      ds    f

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