On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 21:37:16 -0800, Jon Perryman wrote: >When you have an error in a SYSCALL command, you should display RETVAL, ERRNO >and ERRNOJR. I think it's ERRNOJR that you can use with BPXMTEXT to see help >information. ERRNO is a generic error number type. RC is even more generic. > RC is different. If RC<>0, no system call was issued, and ERRNO and ERRNOJR are meaningless.
There's a pseudo-syscall, "strerror", which is similar to BPXMTEXT and similarly useful. >As for your problem, it's with the parenthesis. They represent variable >substitution. I can't remember if it's REXX or UNIX environment variables. >Either use the parenthesis or REXX variable substitution but not both because >you don't have a variable defined with the file name string. > Answered long ago. The OP repaired the syntax and a new problem arose; unexplained; discussion continued on MVS-OE. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
