Well, we can quibble over the details but we agree the information is not as helpful as it might be.
We get a million-line LE dump. No doubt something possibly useful is buried in the dump. Yes, I am well aware that there are some things I could do. I have another situation where I have to front-end a POSIX program. In that case it is because IIRC a COBOL program can't call a POSIX program, but my (POSIX) program has to be COBOL-callable, so I front-end it with a non-POSIX C program that calls the real program. Executive decision on my part that the additional complexity is not worth it. I am going to add U4093/90 specifically to our documentation. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How tell if have OMVS Segment On 11 September 2014 13:37, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > The doc for the ABEND code is pretty poor. For U4093/90 V1R13 at least > says > > X'90' (144) Condition management for MVS could not be initialized. > > Mmm. That's helpful. How about "Required OMVS segment not found." But that's not what it says. As I mentioned earlier, there are six or eight environmental things that can cause initialization to fail, and what the customer has to do to fix them isn't all the same thing. LE (among others) is notorious for catching an error and turning it into something else that gives less information. If they insist on abending, they should at least show the orginal errno and errno2 (identifying them as such, of course), even if they are unable or unwilling to show the text for them. As for what you can do about this - the obvious thing is to run a little program before the LE-enabled thing that checks out the environment and either issues nice messages or if all is well passes control to the LE part. It could be as simple as a separate job step. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
