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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS Utilities
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 11, 2020

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Make IEBCOPY return codes consistent with documentation

When IEBCOPY hits certain warning conditions it issues a message such as IGW01557W MEMBER FOO NOT COPIED BECAUSE THE NAME ALREADY EXISTS IN THE OUTPUT DATASET CAUSING A COPY GROUP NO-REPLACE CONFLICT. "W" messages such as this are documented in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieam900/iea3m9_IGW_messages.htm as generating a return code 4. Nonetheless IEBCOPY actually returns RC = 0. I would like to see IBM make the product conform to the documentation and return RC = 4.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 5, 2024

    We just got bitten by this "feature" as well! With us it was an ALIAS that got thrown away! Three W messages all documented as RC=04 but it ended RC=0 and who checks the SYSOUT of RC=00 IEBCOPY jobs? I have better things to do with my time. I opened a case, TS015613954, where the answer was "Works as designed" that's as maybe, but the RC=00 is simply wrong - This is, IMHO, a bug and should be simply fixed!

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 27, 2020

    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 - DFSMS Utilities
    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 - DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

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