What does that VSAM Status Code Mean?

 Every operation you carry out to access a VSAM file in COBOL will return a file status code to indicate whether the operation completed successfully or not. It is good practice when programming to check the VSAM status code after any operation carried out on a VSAM file to check that the OPEN, READ, etc completed successfully. To use the status code you must define a working storage field that will contain the file status, and use the clause "FILE STATUS IS status" on the SELECT statement.

The codes returned are listed in the table below.

 File Status Cause
00 Operation completed successfully
02 Duplicate Key was found
04 Invalid fixed length record
05 The file was created when opened - Successful Completion
07 CLOSE with REEL or NO REWIND executed for non tape dataset.
10 End of File encountered
14 Attempted to READ a relative record outside file boundary
21 Invalid Key - Sequence error
22 Invalid Key - Duplicate Key found
23 Invalid key - No record found
24 Invalid Key - key outside boundary of file.
30 Permanent I/O Error
34 Permanent I/O Error - Record outside file boundary
35 OPEN, but file not found
37 OPEN with wrong mode
38 Tried to OPEN a LOCKed file
39 OPEN failed, conflicting file attributes
41 Tried to OPEN a file that is already open
42 Tried to CLOSE a file that is not OPEN
43 Tried to REWRITE without READing a record first
44 Tried to REWRITE a record of a different length
46 Tried to READ beyond End-of-file
47 Tried to READ from a file that was not opened I-O or INPUT
48 Tried to WRITE to a file that was not opened I-O or OUTPUT
49 Tried to DELETE or REWRITE to a file that was not opened I-O
91 Password or authorization failed
92 Logic Error
93 Resource was not available (may be allocated to CICS or another user)
94 Sequential record unavailable or concurrent OPEN error
95 File Information invalid or incomplete
96 No DD statement for the file
97 OPEN successful and file integrity verified
98 File is Locked - OPEN failed
99 Record Locked - record access failed.