On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 08:17:48 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Mil Hashoul wrote:
>
>> 03A8 0936 request block extension has a bad format. Corresponding
>> Message: IKJ56231I
>
>My immediate thought is that the library is fine. The problem is most
>likely somewhere in the request block (parameters) that you are giving to
>SVC 99. You might want to post that code. If you are not doing anything
>fancy, you might want to consider replacing the SVC 99 code with a call to
>BPXWDYN(). You pass that subroutine a character string which looks a lot
>like a TSO ALLOCATE command. And it does all the hard work for you.
>ref: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB6A0/6.0
>You can use BPXWDYN in any high level language, HLASM, and REXX!
>
Likewise from the TSO command line, with useful diagnostics:
READY
call *(BPXWDYN) 'alloc dsn(''sys1.imagelix'') shr msg(wtp)'
IKJ56228I DATA SET SYS1.IMAGELIX NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE
ACCESSED
READY
call *(BPXWDYN) 'alloc dsn(''sys1.imagelib'') shr msg(wtp)'
READY
-- gil
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