To answer your question directly: no there is no such way. Could there be, in the future? Sure. If z/OS base control program were to provide it, it might not be the compiler ARCH value but might be the machine generation number (which happens to be +2 over the compiler ARCH level) -- e.g., z13 happens to be "13" (not a big stretch). If LE or a compiler area were to provide it, then it would more likely be the number that they use.
The problem that you wrote that you were challenged with solving was " couldn't we put out a better message than S0C1?"" And the answer is for the most part "yes", without requiring an answer to the question you posed: field the PIC 1 in recovery and deal with it in a nicer way than you currently do (such as a message, a unique abend/reason code pair that you document for your product, whatever). Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
