I have a very basic one to complain about: DFS0929I BLDL FAILED FOR MEMBER --DDMPPSZ
This really means that the specified PSB DDMPPSZ is not in the specified IMS library. Why can't it just say that? As an application programmer do I really need to know that BLDL means, well, whatever it means? Of course IMS has some that are even worse. Sometimes I just get something like: USER COMPLETION CODE=xxxx without any message at all. The first time I ran in to it it took me a heck of a time to figure out I need to look in the IMS manual to find out what the error was. For all I could tell it was a user application error, but I couldn't see what. Now all of the other developers on our VSE to z/OS conversion team just ask me what the errors are, because trying to find them in the manuals is too often too painful. Hopefully I'll get them trained some day! I've got to say, coming from VSE their error messages are, in general, much better. Of course as a developer I hate dealing with creating error messages for my own apps, so I can understand why IBM has such issues... :-) Frank -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation Lakewood, CO USA P: 303-235-1403 F: 303-235-2075 The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
