Re: Checking return status from PASE

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

I have the same experience.  The User RC has always worked well for me, 
but IBMers (and the docs) have told me that it is not reliable.

You did not say how you're going about running PASE?

But, I would suggest either running it through the STRQSH command, or by 
using a tool like my (free) UNIXCMD tool.  These use pipes to solve the 
thread safety concerns.

-SK


On 6/30/2017 10:19 AM, MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I developed the habit years ago of calling QUSRJOBI and checking the "User
> return code" to see if things finished correctly. However, the
> documentation on QUSRJOBI states:
>
> N/A; do not use: Thread safety is not applicable (N/A). The user return
> code field is the most recent return code set by any thread within the
> job. Many operating system functions run C code and change the value of
> the user return code. Changes to this field occur at times that cannot be
> predicted or controlled by user programming, even when the job is
> single-threaded. To receive a value returned by a called program, it is
> better to provide a parameter to receive that value than to rely on this
> job-scoped user return code field.
>
> Returning a parameter from PASE isn't really available. I've never had a
> problem with the "User return code", but the documentation above is pretty
> emphatic that I'm doing the wrong thing. Does anybody know of another
> method to return the completion status of a script in PASE?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Quigley
> Computer Services
> The Way International
> www.TheWay.org