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suma · Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 65 Topics: 29

Hi all,

I am getting a vsam return code of 12 from the cics READ file command; please let me know what is vsam status code 12 means?

Thanks
Suma

jsharon1248 · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:36 am Post subject:

Click on the Quick Manuals link at the top of every page in this forum. Then click on the CICS Language Reference link. Scroll down to Appendix A and click on EIB Fields. Then scroll down to the EIBRESP values. Usually the condition name is enough to figure out what your problem is.

Dibakar · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

suma,

VSAM error code of 12 is file open error but you are not getting that. You got CICS READ error and jsharon1248 has already given reference for it.

Diba.

jsharon1248 · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject:

Dibakar

Excellent point. I didn't notice the conflicting terminology in the op's original post. VSAM file status values are indeed completely different from CICS EIB Resp values. Thanks for clarifying that point.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:39 am Post subject:

in a cics program you are never going to get the 'VSAM File-STATUS' code, because you can not define the FD, thus you have no reference to the file-status clause.

As well as the fact that the VSAM I/O functions are performed via CICS API's and not normal I/O service routines.

and I know,
that anyone who says that they have a vsam file status of ? in a cics module,
does not know what they are talking about.
This is a misuse of words exactly like the misuse of 'JCL'. After a while we ignore it,
knowing the OP has little or no experience.
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