Output

When the control block formatter service returns control to your exit routine, IPCS sets register 15 to contain one of the following return codes:

Code

Meaning

00

The control block formatter service completed normally

04

Attention: Check the following bit string flags in the ADPLPRET field (within BLSABDPL) for additional diagnostic information:

ADPLPRAC: Control block acronym check failed
ADPLPRNL: Unable to load the control block formatting model
ADPLPRNB: Unable to access the control block
ADPLPRNF: Unable to format the control block
ADPLPRTB: Truncated control block
ADPLPRNC: The CBFORMAT service was unable to associate the data type specified with any data type defined to IPCS. This may be the result of the caller spelling the name incorrectly or may reflect the absence of a definition. Definitions are supplied by DATA statements in BLSCECT, BLSCUSER, or related parmlib members read at the start of the IPCS session.
ADPLPRNE: The CBFORMAT service was able to associate the data type specified with a defined data type, but neither formatter nor model is, in turn associated with that data type.
ADPLPRNG: Storage not available for the CBAT
ADPLPRUU: Control block formatter previously marked unusable
ADPLPRIM: Incorrect control block formatting model
ADPLPRCM: Control block formatting model error
ADPLPNVM: No view match and therefore, no output
ADPLPBXI: Identifier on parameter list extension is bad
ADPLPFEF: Formatting exit failure
ADPLPNXD: No exit data

16

The system stopped processing this service because of a lack of sufficient storage for the CBAT

If the control block formatter service completed successfully, your exit routine has a formatted control block.

Note:

This service changes the contents of fields ADPLPBAS (buffer address in central storage) and ADPLPBLS (length of the block in central storage). These two fields must be set by your exit routine, otherwise the control block formatting service interprets the nonzero contents of these fields to indicate that the control block is in a buffer.
Some formatting programs must perform another dump access to get extensions to the first control block, and in some environments, the same buffer location is reused. The buffer might not contain an image of the first control block. Therefore, your exit routine should do its own dump access if it needs information out of a control block.