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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories ISPF
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 10, 2021

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More informative messages on RACF error

Issuing the TSO command "racmap" is producing the following message in the TSO session:

Abend 684000 hex occurred processing command 'RACMAP '.
ISPD210 CMD abended - 'RACMAP' terminated abnormally.

This abend is actually 2 codes 684 system abend and 000 user abend. 684 indicates that the command has not been added as an authorised command on the system.

To me, this ranks very low on usability - how is a user supposed to know there are actually two abend codes here?

At an absolute minimum, this should be reported as "system abend code xxx, user abend code yyy" or better still not report the 000 code at all.

Given the abend is such an explicit condition, why is the user not told the problem for example "This command needs to be authorised on the system using AUTHCMD" preferably without the abend at all.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 18, 2022

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - ISPF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - RACF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

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