Scott, thanks for that. I had assumed the text generator was working correctly once it got the allocate text units right. Bad assumption.
To others: I am not allowed to post source. Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On Oct 30, 2018, at 8:14 AM, Scott Ballentine <sbal...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > That error code really means "SVC 99 can't find a required key in the list of > text units." You must specify one of DDNAME, DSNAME, or PATH for SVC 99 > unallocation. For that error, the system only cares that it has found one of > those three keys in the list during unallocation, and what you did at > allocation time doesn't matter - SVC 99 is just doing basic parameter list > validation. > > You said "in the RBX I get ERROR CODE 0388" - you mean the S99ERROR field in > the S99RB? There are some codes in the S99RBX, but those are different. > > Double check that the pointer to the text unit list for the unallocation is > pointing to the correct storage, the text units contain the correct keys, and > that you don't have the end of list indicator (the high-order bit) turned on > for any of the text unit pointers other than the last. > > -Scott Ballentine (sbal...@us.ibm.com) > z/OS Allocation, Scheduler, SMF > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
