While there's no hard and fast rule, i.e. nothing prevents you from generating 
any return code from your programs, it's a tradition that return codes are a 
multiple of 4.

0 - Normal
4- Warning
8 - Error
12 - Severe Error
16 - Terminal Error

Mark Jacobs
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Ron 
Thomas [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Return codes

Hi ,

Can some one let me know why the return code generated is a mutilple of 4? e.g 
4,8,12,16

Thanks,
Ron T

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