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Return value on AS400

Hi

Can anybody tell me the limit of error value returned on AS/400 system.
For MVS the limit is 0 - 4096.

Thanks,

Dhumal

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ShadowProgrammer

You need to know the application, eg. SQL, RPG, CPF etc.

In general error messages are in the format

AAA9999
where AAA is actualy 1 alpha and two alphanumerics and identifies the application, and sometimes a clue to the message file containing the message
and 9999 is a four digit number... in hex: digits 0-9 and characters A-F

I would have said the limit is 0000-FFFF, although generally 0001-9999 (although not all numbers are used)

Error messages are stored in MESSAGE FILES (*MSGF).

You can create your own message file(s), and create your own message id's but the message id has to follow the above convention.

examples of IBM supplied message files (assuming you have the applications loaded) are
QCPFMSG
QRPGMSGE
QRPG3MSGE
QSQLMSG
the list goes on and on and on......

try the command WRKMSGF *LIBL/*ALL
and choos option 12 to view messages....

eg. QSQLMSG has the following messages
QMR0A1A - QMR2204
QMX0001 - QMX0191
SQL0004 - SQL9108
SQT0100 - SQT6842
SQ20054 - SQ20268
SQ30000 - SQ30107
SQ99999

NOTE that not all numbers in a range are used !! eg. QSQLMSG has the following extract
Message ID Severity Message Text
QMR0A1A 10 Field value must be in the range 1 to 255.
QMR0A1B 10 Field value must be in the range 22 to 378.
QMR0A10 10 Field value must be in the range 1 to 4.
QMR0A11 10 Field value must be in the range 0 to 99.
QMR0A12 10 Field value must be in the range 0 to 999.
QMR0A15 10 Field value must be in the range 0 to 15.

notice messages QMR0A13 or QMR0A14 don't exist.

Tony.