Re: Brain fade QSH0005 reason codes?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry,

They are not actually "reason codes" in the sense you are thinking of. 
They are "exit status".  All Unix programs have the ability to return an 
integer when they end.  The programmer who writes this software can 
return any integer they wish.

The most common Unix convention is to return 0 to indicate success, and 
anything else to indicate failure.

But, the values they can return vary widely from program-to-program, any 
one can write a program to be run in Unix, and each program can return 
whatever they wish.  So there is no way to get a list of them all on a 
general basis.

You could potentially get a list for a particular program if that 
program has documentation showing what the expected exit statuses may be.

But, most unix programmers just check for 0=success, (or non-zero is 
failure) and that's all.

-SK



On 6/7/2015 10:59 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> Right but the thing returns reason codes with the QSH0005 number. I
> can't find the definition of the reason codes.
>
> I don't need it any longer, though,  as I found a script from Scott
> Klement that lets me do what I need using expect and environment
> variables. Very cool I must say.
>
>          - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
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> On 6/7/2015 12:48 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
>
> > Maybe??
> >
> > When the command ends, STRQSH sends one of three messages:
> >
> >     - QSH0005 when the process running the command ends normally. The
> >     message includes the exit status of the process.
> >     - QSH0006 when the process running the command ends by signal. The
> >     message includes the signal number.
> >     - QSH0007 when the process running the command ends by exception.
> >
> > By default, the messages are sent as completion messages. You can have
> > the
> > messages sent as escape messages by setting the environment variable
> > QIBM_QSH_CMD_ESCAPE_MSG. When the value of the environment variable is
> > "Y",
> > the QSH0006, and QSH0007 messages are always sent as escape messages and
> > the QSH0005 message is sent as an escape message if the exit status is
> > greater than zero.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:36 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Where are these defined?  Try as I might finding them evades me......
> > >
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