I submitted this IBM Idea and would appreciate your support if you’re able
to vote:

https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3827

The text is:

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

Text:
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


Lionel B. Dyck <><
Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com
Github: https://github.com/lbdyck

“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you
are, reputation merely what others think you are.”   - - - John Wooden

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