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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories z/OS File System (zFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 18, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

All error messages for shell tools should be complete and NOT require referencing a Messages and Codes manual

Receiving a message like this (example from DSFS dsadm command): IDFS00329E Could not set creation parameters, return code 126 reason code ED07621A. Is confusing and meaningless to the average OMVS shell user. They are not used to finding a messages and codes manual (which is so last millennium) and using Google/Bing/... is useless in finding this, and similar, messages.

All shell commands that run under OMVS should provide clear, and complete, messages without requiring the user to find a messages and codes manual. The days of the 1960's and 1970's to conserve space within programs by using error message codes instead of full message text should be retired.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 19, 2023
    .The bpxmtext command is the current approach for providing detailed information for return codes and reason codes.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 22, 2023

    I agree nowadays, there may be support users who have never read the manual, let alone look up an error message

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2023
    Shell user's can use the bpxmtext command to display the text of reason codes.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2023

    Totally Agree.

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