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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
