M204.2561

M204.2561  ECF token module​=​token2 completion​=​token3 reason​=​token4 return​=​token5 ECTASK​=​hexValue TCB​=​hexValue2

An External Call Facility (ECF) operation failed when processing the external module named in the message.

• Operation (token) can be one of:

  Operation	You issued ECF statement	z/OS response
  CALL	EXTERNAL CALL	ABEND external program
  DELETE	EXTERNAL DELETE	Issue an error to DELETE request
  LOAD ABENDED	EXTERNAL LOAD	ABEND during this processing
  LOAD FAILED	EXTERNAL LOAD	Issue an error to LOAD request

• Completion code (token3) has two formats:

  Completion code	Type of code
  Snnn	z/OS system code, described in IBM z/OS System Codes, GC28-1780
  Unnnn	User ABEND code, issued by the external program that ABENDed

  The Completion code is a hexadecimal value for system codes and a decimal value for user ABEND codes.

• Reason code (token4) is a hexadecimal value.
• Return code (token5) is a decimal value.

The message always reports either a Return code or a Completion code and associated Reason code.

Response: Determine what action needs to be taken, based on the error code.

Message attributes:

RETCODEO=0	Sets online return code
RETCODEB=0	Sets batch (single user) return code
CLASS=I	Information class; the message can be suppressed with the X'02' bit setting of the MSGCTL parameter
AUDITRK	Writes the message with line type RK to the audit trail
NOCOUNT	Does not increment the error count (ERCNT) parameter
NOTERM	Does not display the message on the user's terminal

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