STATUS Function

Returns an error code which is equivalent to that which would have been returned via the SETTING clause in the previous file operation.

This function is provided for compatibility with MultiValue systems that do not include a SETTING clause in their file access statements.

Syntax

STATUS()

Comments

The STATUS function must be used immediately after the statement or function for which it is returning the error code.

STATUS can be used with the following:

CLOSESEQ statement	DELETESEQ statement	FLUSH statement
ICONVS function	MATREADU statement	OCONVS function
OPENSEQ statement	READBLK statement	READSEQ statement
READU statement	READVU statement	RECORDLOCKED function
SEEK statement	WEOFSEQ statement	WRITEBLK statement
WRITESEQ statement

See the descriptions of the above for details of the values returned.