How to look up DFSORT/ICETOOL messages

Frank Yaeger

A lesson in looking up DFSORT/ICETOOL messages:

DFSORT is an IBM product. DFSORT includes ICETOOL. The messages for IBM products are easily accessible. The easiest way to look up an IBM message is to use IBM's LookAt facility at:

www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/lookat/

Everyone should bookmark this.

You just choose the version of z/OS you want, e.g. V1R12, type the message into the message ID box (for example, ICE077A), hit enter and the message text is displayed.

The other easy way to look up DFSORT messages is in "z/OS DFSORT Messages, Codes and Diagnosis Guide" which you can access along with all the other DFSORT books from:

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=114&uid=isg3T7000080

Click on "Messages and Codes", then "Informational and Error Messages" and you'll get a clickable list of the DFSORT messages. Here's the direct link:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CM20/2.2?SHELF=&DT=20060721170811&CASE=

amitha · New User Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Banglore

Very Useful Information Frank..

Thanks for sharing..

Mazahar · New User Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 82 Location: hyderabad

Frank

Excellent. You Rock.

lee_issc · New User Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 33 Location: China

Hi Frank,

Checked all these links and did not find the message for 28.
ICE077A 0 VSAM OUTPUT ERROR L(28) SORTOUT

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:32 am Post subject:

Hello,

Did you look up ICE077A (as it shows in this topic) ?

28 is a vsam error code, so it will be with the vsam error codes rather than the DFSORT messages. . .

Balaji Canabady · New User Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 19 Location: India

Thanks for the links Frank.

But mostly I was using Quickref to immediately look at the DFSORT/ICETOOL messages...