Well golly gee, look at that!

So...why doesn't the original error show this, instead of making the user do an 
extra, secret step?
(Yes, that's rhetorical)

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Charles Mills
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 12:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Why MVS data set read-only from UNIX?

On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:36:48 -0400, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:

>Well, you're perhaps lucky you got an actual error, and not one of 
>those hex fullword values! (OK, not really, because that would have 
>more likely been unique, and wouldn't have led you down the wrong path 
>of "What is it that's R/O?")
>
>Which leads me to wonder: how did people find out what those hex fullword 
>errors meant before they could Google them? Not that I think they're all 
>online, but many seem to be. Is there a secret manual I've never found that 
>lists them?

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=commands-bpxmtext-display-reason-code-text
 ?

Charles

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