[email protected] ([email protected]) wrote: <snip>
I remember quite clearly how exasperated I always was (back when I was IBM level 2) when the books said 'contact IBM', and I was IBM and I had no clue how to find out what module even had *issued* the message, much less what the reason code meant. Right around that time the powers that be also decided not to publish anymore what module issued a message, so there went that crutch. And for the people out in the backwaters there was no cross reference, either. In some cases no retain search even gave a starting point and I ended up sending such a problem straight to Poughkeepsie with the question where to find more information. Somehow I don't think the situation has become any better.
I was so surprised by this that I had to go look. A spot check of several z/OS messages books shows that many (perhaps most) messages include "Module: [module name]" just as they always did. Maybe you were "lucky" enough to have a tendency to work on exceptions, or on some component or components for which the detecting modules were not documented.
For system abends, there is a cross-reference table (Chapter 4 in the 2.1 System Codes book) that provides detecting modules. I can't easily tell whether all are represented there, but it's a fairly long table. For Abend077, though, it's clear from reading the message that a perhaps-significant number of modules are involved, and that someone chose not to document all of them in Chapter 4.
-- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
