It has been my experience whenever I have encountered these "9x", "9]" 
type of errors in Cobol is because the program is trying to manipulate a
file (open?) that is already open or cannot be opened for some reason
(security violation maybe, or another process has the file opened exclusively)


The Cobol manual isn't very good at giving away these error codes
and their meaning. Page 6-42 "Environment Division" section gives some
flimsy info on these "9x" errors ("Some 9x values have been changed to other
codes. For example, the ANSI COBOL '85 file status 38 was previously
a 9x code".)

Pages 6-43, 6-44 and 6-45 of the Cobol manual give you all the Cobol file
system error numbers and a description of what the error is but is missing
the 9x error codes and their meaning.


Brian Donaldson.


On Wed, 28 May 2008 11:29:30 +0800, Serrano, Marianne
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Sorry for typo error. That should be "9]" instead of "9" only.
>
>Thanks,
>Ianne
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ianne [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:20 AM
>To: HP3000 List
>Cc: Serrano, Marianne
>Subject: file status error number 9
>
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone help and enlighten me with the file error I'm encountering -
>file 
>status 9?
>
>Any help is very much appreciated. =)
>
>Thanks!
>
>* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
>* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *