0388 is a class-3 error (invalid parameter list), assigned by DAIR, meaning "A required key not specified for any of the following requests": ddname allocation, information retrieval, concatenation, deconcatenation, remove In - Use, unallocation.
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:02:30 -0400, Steve Thompson <ste...@copper.net> wrote: >I'm testing a special in-house developed utility. So it is >designed to be invoked by a COBOL program. > >I'm going to tell you how I got here and all the stuff I've been >doing, and then the effects of the SIS (IBMLink search), etc. >before I ask my question. > >So a test of the code, once fixed to run AMODE=31, works when I >do an allocation of one of my own data sets using the DD of SYSUT1. > >When I do this allocate, I do not specify anything special for >the text units. I only use the DDNAME, DSNAME and disposition of SHR. > >Now, I come back and test the DEALLOC function, and I get a >failure from SVC99, and in the RBX I get ERROR CODE 0388 - ALL >REQUESTS EXCEPT DSNAME ALLOCATIONS REQUIRED KEY NOT SPECIFIED (I >know this because the program has SNAP logic built in so I can >SNAP the Text units & pointers before and after the SVC99 >execution). This is also associated with IKJ56878I and that >message makes no sense. > >But the doc for that message says go read the text messages in >the manual, and basically, pay attention to the text keys that >are required. > >Uh, it appears that only the DDNAME is required, but it doesn't >say you can't also specify the DSNAME. It makes no difference, I >can't get this to work. > >So, the message manual also says something about DAIRFAIL. Well I >haven't played with DAIR directly for so long that I can't >remember what manual(s) even hold that info, if they are even >published these days. > >Ok, so I did a bunch of duckduckgo.com searches, and google, and >I can't find anything that matches. > >So then I went to IBMLink and finally got the web pages to >display formatted (Chrome) and searched and got no hits for the >message, for dairfail, etc. And I was not just looking for APARs >and PTFs, I was including other libraries for info as well. > >[KC comes into this now, and it locked up IE.] So back to Chrome >and I can't find the info I need. > >Does anyone know if there is something special about SYSUTn as a >DD for SVC99? I use these all the time via REXX, and I don't have >these problems there. > >So it would seem that it should be simple as I did not turn on >any special flags for doing the allocation (e.g., in-use, or >similar). > >Regards, >Steve Thompson > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
