I was here and that sort of message was not acceptable then. They could at
least have written somethng like
DFS0929I BLDL ON DDNAME foo FAILED with RC=bar FOR MEMBER --DDMPPSZ
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:02:40 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>Here's a quote from a message I posted to this list in 2009:
>
>"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?
>
The practice was established over a half century ago when every programmer
could be presumed to have at least a superficial knowledge of the entire OS/360
reference library. And storage was too precious to support elaborate messages.
That time has passed.
The practice persists.
-- gil
Not saying I wouldn't like to see the messages updated/cleaned up/friendly-ized
( ? ) , but my guess is that the few people IBM has left working on z/OS and
the related software have more important things to do.
Rex
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