On Wednesday, 10/07/2009 at 07:12 EDT, "Gentry, Stephen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I?m needing to issue a vmlink command from within an assembler program. What I > would like returned in some parameter list or rc(return code) is the file > mode. If it?s done with an rc , the rc could be 1 thru 26 corresponding to A > thru Z. > > Has anyone done anything like this and if so would you be willing to share the > code? > > I can do it with brute force but would prefer a more civilized approach.
In the same vein as Rob's suggestion, I would simply wrap VMLINK in another exec. That exec would use the VMLINK interfaces to determine the filemode and translate that to a numeric. E.g. RC=1-26 means it worked. RC > 1000 means VMLINK gave RC=(return code-1000). That sort of thing. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
