Understanding the JCL ERROR 938

nartcr · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 83 Location: anada

Hi all,

I coded a JCL with more than 255 steps.Every time i submit the JCL [ without changing any statement ] i am getting different JCL error codes in JESMSGLG.

Some error messages are :-

IRR010I USERID PKF IS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB.
IEFC452I PKFCOPY - JOB NOT RUN - JCL ERROR 938
\HASP971 OS/EM VER 6.1 - JCL CONVERTED BY JES2 ON 3100

IRR010I USERID PKF IS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB.
IEFC452I PKFCOPY - JOB NOT RUN - JCL ERROR 264
\HASP971 OS/EM VER 6.1 - JCL CONVERTED BY JES2 ON 3100

eventough the the message in JESYSMSG is same:-
IEFC602I EXCESSIVE NUMBER OF EXECUTE STATEMENTS

Why is it MVS issues different error codes when we submit the job with more than 255 steps? Any help would be appreciated.

gcicchet · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:29 pm

Hi,

938 and 264 are not error codes. ( I have not been able to find out what the numbers represent )

This has come up in the forum previously but I'm not sure it really answered your query.

www.ibmmainframes.com/about34340.html

Gerry

nartcr · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 83 Location: anada

I did check what you posted before putting this question.Its not mentioned anything about what those numbers means.I was not able to get any clue about these codes...

nartcr · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 83 Location: anada

Seems like IEFC452I routine is dynammically called routine from MVS due to which issues different codes at the time of execution.Is this correct?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:35 pm

NO... the are just messages issued by different mvs components

You are running some add ons OS/EM
unless there is somebody around with the same environment
You will not get many suggestions around here

check with Your support...
IEFC452I is issued by the converter
IEF452I is issued by the interpreter/allocation

IEFC602I is issued by the converter
IEF602I is issued by the interpreter/converter

HSAP971 does is not a jes message
as the doc says ...
publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HAS2A170/13.0?SHELF=HAS2BK70&DT=20070426075909

but, since You know that it is not possible to have more than 255 steps
why do You insist ?

I do not have the system up now,
but if I have time i might try to find out the meaning of the numbers
( just a very wild guess could they be the job number ???)

gcicchet · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:02 pm

Hi Enrico,

I have tested the same and getting "the" numbers, ie. the job numbers are followed by the numbers.

J01778 146
J01779 150
J01780 189
J01781 212
J01782 228

Gerry

Bill Dennis · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:08 pm

The numbers you see at the end of the msg are multi-line WTO identifiers.

When a program writes a multi-line WTO, the first line has the ID# at the end and the successive lines have the same number in the front. This is so you can piece tigether the whole message on a busy SYSLOG.

If the message doesn't actually need to write a second line, then you're left with only one line with the ID#.