(cross-posting to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE)
On 2018-09-08, at 05:07:04, William Schoen wrote:

> The API for this is the pfsctl callable service, see usage note 9.
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb100/pct.htm
>  
Now that's obscure.

On 2018-09-07, at 19:06:51, Charles Mills wrote:
> 
> If I wanted to call BPXMTEXT from within my program and capture the text
> output, what would I to do? I'm sure I could solve this with enough
> experimentation but the gray hairs have made me impatient.
> 
> Something like system("bpxmtext %x") where I substitute the errno2() value
> into the message. But (1) I read a warning about having to allocate stdin
> and so forth, and (2) I would like to capture the output. I suspect those
> two issues have the same solution, and perhaps someone could point me in the
> right direction?
>  
I suspect Charles searched the reasonable places with no success.
Is an RCF in order?

In:  
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxa500/bpxmtext.htm
    bpxmtext — Display reason code text
    ... It can be run from the z/OS UNIX shell and the TSO environment.
    You can also enter that command through System REXX as an MVS™ system 
command.

Add:
    ... The API for this is the pfsctl callable service, see usage note 9. 
<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb100/pct.htm>

and add "BPXMTEXT" to that section so a Google search is likely to find it.

Which?  Both?  Other (specify)?

-- gil

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