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 ________________________________________ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
