On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:32:29 -0600, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> wrote:
>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? > Frank, I suspect that the message is merely "dated" -- back when I went through undergraduate school, applications programmers wrote in Assembler and issued BLDLs directly, so they knew what a BLDL was and the error message made sense to them. Today, BLDLs are done umpteen layers below the applications and the message is no longer appropriate. "MEMBER xxxxxxxx NOT FOUND" would make more sense. Maybe its time to blow the dust off of messages such as these... W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
