[Info-vax] COBOL, <gack!> again! Return status.

[gah4]

On Monday, September 11, 2023 at 12:46:03 PM UTC-7, bill wrote:

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> If you want a status returned to DCL I expect that would do it. 

But DCL will give you a funny message, instead of a number.

Years ago, I had a program that returned 8.

For IBM OS/360 and descendents, 8 is error,
(4 is warning, 12 is even worse error).

And then VMS gives a surprising message, that doesn't help at all.