Programs using the UNIX®-type functions may receive error information as errno values. The possible values returned are listed here in ascending errno value sequence.
| Name | Value | Text | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDOM | 3001 | A domain error occurred in a math function. | |
| ERANGE | 3002 | A range error occurred. | |
| ETRUNC | 3003 | Data was truncated on an input, output, or update operation. | |
| ENOTOPEN | 3004 | File is not open. | You attempted to do an operation that required the file to be open. |
| ENOTREAD | 3005 | File is not opened for read operations. | You tried to read a file that is not open for read operations. |
| EIO | 3006 | Input/output error. | A physical I/O error occurred or a referenced object was damaged. |
| ENODEV | 3007 | No such device. | |
| ERECIO | 3008 | Cannot get single character for files opened for record I/O. | The file that was specified is open for record I/O and you attempted to read it as a stream file. |
| ENOTWRITE | 3009 | File is not opened for write operations. | You tried to update a file that has not been opened for write operations. |
| ESTDIN | 3010 | The stdin stream cannot be opened. | |
| ESTDOUT | 3011 | The stdout stream cannot be opened. | |
| ESTDERR | 3012 | The stderr stream cannot be opened. | |
| EBADSEEK | 3013 | The positioning parameter in fseek is not correct. | |
| EBADNAME | 3014 | The object name specified is not correct. | |
| EBADMODE | 3015 | The type variable specified on the open function is not correct. | The mode that you attempted to open the file in is not correct. |
| EBADPOS | 3017 | The position specifier is not correct. | |
| ENOPOS | 3018 | There is no record at the specified position. | You attempted to position to a record that does not exist in the file. |
| ENUMMBRS | 3019 | Attempted to use ftell on multiple members. | Remove all but one member from the file. |
| ENUMRECS | 3020 | The current record position is too long for ftell. | |
| EINVAL | 3021 | The value specified for the argument is not correct. | A function was passed incorrect argument values, or an operation was attempted on an object and the operation specified is not supported for that type of object. |
| EBADFUNC | 3022 | Function parameter in the signal function is not set. | |
| ENOENT | 3025 | No such path or directory. | The directory or a component of the path name specified does not exist. |
| ENOREC | 3026 | Record is not found. | |
| EPERM | 3027 | The operation is not permitted. | You must have appropriate privileges or be the owner of the object or other resource to do the requested operation. |
| EBADDATA | 3028 | Message data is not valid. | The message data that was specified for the error text is not correct. |
| EBUSY | 3029 | Resource busy. | An attempt was made to use a system resource that is not available at this time. |
| EBADOPT | 3040 | Option specified is not valid. | |
| ENOTUPD | 3041 | File is not opened for update operations. | |
| ENOTDLT | 3042 | File is not opened for delete operations. | |
| EPAD | 3043 | The number of characters written is shorter than the expected record length. | The length of the record is longer than the buffer size that was specified. The data written was padded to the length of the record. |
| EBADKEYLN | 3044 | A length that was not valid was specified for the key. | You attempted a record I/O against a keyed file. The key length that was specified is not correct. |
| EPUTANDGET | 3080 | A write operation should not immediately follow a read operation. | |
| EGETANDPUT | 3081 | A read operation should not immediately follow a write operation. | |
| EIOERROR | 3101 | A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred. | |
| EIORECERR | 3102 | A recoverable I/O error occurred. | |
| EACCES | 3401 | Permission denied. | An attempt was made to access an object in a way forbidden by its object access permissions. |
| ENOTDIR | 3403 | Not a directory. | A component of the specified path name existed, but it was not a directory when a directory was expected. |
| ENOSPC | 3404 | No space is available. | The requested operations required additional space on the device and there is no space left. This could also be caused by exceeding the user profile storage limit when creating or transferring ownership of an object. |
| EXDEV | 3405 | Improper link. | A link to a file on another file system was attempted. |
| EAGAIN | 3406 | Operation would have caused the process to be suspended. | |
| EWOULDBLOCK | 3406 | Operation would have caused the process to be suspended. | |
| EINTR | 3407 | Interrupted function call. | |
| EFAULT | 3408 | The address used for an argument was not correct. | In attempting to use an argument in a call, the system detected an address that is not valid. |
| ETIME | 3409 | Operation timed out. | |
| ENXIO | 3415 | No such device or address. | |
| ECLOSED | 3417 | Socket closed. | |
| EAPAR | 3418 | Possible APAR condition or hardware failure. | |
| ERECURSE | 3419 | Recursive attempt rejected. | |
| EADDRINUSE | 3420 | Address already in use. | |
| EADDRNOTAVAIL | 3421 | Address is not available. | |
| EAFNOSUPPORT | 3422 | The type of socket is not supported in this protocol family. | |
| EALREADY | 3423 | Operation is already in progress. | |
| ECONNABORTED | 3424 | Connection ended abnormally. | |
| ECONNREFUSED | 3425 | A remote host refused an attempted connect operation. | |
| ECONNRESET | 3426 | A connection with a remote socket was reset by that socket. | |
| EDESTADDRREQ | 3427 | Operation requires destination address. | |
| EHOSTDOWN | 3428 | A remote host is not available. | |
| EHOSTUNREACH | 3429 | A route to the remote host is not available. | |
| EINPROGRESS | 3430 | Operation in progress. | |
| EISCONN | 3431 | A connection has already been established. | |
| EMSGSIZE | 3432 | Message size is out of range. | |
| ENETDOWN | 3433 | The network is currently not available. | |
| ENETRESET | 3434 | A socket is connected to a host that is no longer available. | |
| ENETUNREACH | 3435 | Cannot reach the destination network. | |
| ENOBUFS | 3436 | There is not enough buffer space for the requested operation. | |
| ENOPROTOOPT | 3437 | The protocol does not support the specified option. | |
| ENOTCONN | 3438 | Requested operation requires a connection. | |
| ENOTSOCK | 3439 | The specified descriptor does not reference a socket. | |
| ENOTSUP | 3440 | Operation is not supported. | The operation, though supported in general, is not supported for the requested object or the requested arguments. |
| EOPNOTSUPP | 3440 | Operation is not supported. | The operation, though supported in general, is not supported for the requested object or the requested arguments. |
| EPFNOSUPPORT | 3441 | The socket protocol family is not supported. | |
| EPROTONOSUPPORT | 3442 | No protocol of the specified type and domain exists. | |
| EPROTOTYPE | 3443 | The socket type or protocols are not compatible. | |
| ERCVDERR | 3444 | An error indication was sent by the peer program. | |
| ESHUTDOWN | 3445 | Cannot send data after a shutdown. | |
| ESOCKTNOSUPPORT | 3446 | The specified socket type is not supported. | |
| ETIMEDOUT | 3447 | A remote host did not respond within the timeout period. | |
| EUNATCH | 3448 | The protocol required to support the specified address family is not available at this time. | |
| EBADF | 3450 | Descriptor is not valid. | A file descriptor argument was out of range, referred to a file that was not open, or a read or write request was made to a file that is not open for that operation. |
| EMFILE | 3452 | Too many open files for this process. | An attempt was made to open more files than allowed by the value of OPEN_MAX. The value of OPEN_MAX can be retrieved using the sysconf() function. |
| ENFILE | 3453 | Too many open files in the system. | A system limit has been reached for the number of files that are allowed to be concurrently open in the system. |
| EPIPE | 3455 | Broken pipe. | |
| ECANCEL | 3456 | Operation cancelled. | |
| EEXIST | 3457 | Object exists. | The object specified already exists and the specified operation requires that it not exist. |
| EDEADLK | 3459 | Resource deadlock avoided. | An attempt was made to lock a system resource that would have resulted in a deadlock situation. The lock was not obtained. |
| ENOMEM | 3460 | Storage allocation request failed. | A function needed to allocate storage, but no storage is available. |
| EOWNERTERM | 3462 | The synchronization object no longer exists because the owner is no longer running. | The process that had locked the mutex is no longer running, so the mutex was deleted. |
| EDESTROYED | 3463 | The synchronization object was destroyed, or the object no longer exists. | |
| ETERM | 3464 | Operation was terminated. | |
| ENOENT1 | 3465 | No such file or directory. | A component of a specified path name did not exist, or the path name was an empty string. |
| ENOEQFLOG | 3466 | Object is already linked to a dead directory. | The link as a dead option was specified, but the object is already marked as dead. Only one dead link is allowed for an object. |
| EEMPTYDIR | 3467 | Directory is empty. | A directory with entries of only dot and dot-dot was supplied when a nonempty directory was expected. |
| EMLINK | 3468 | Maximum link count for a file was exceeded. | An attempt was made to have the link count of a single file exceed LINK_MAX. The value of LINK_MAX can be determined using the pathconf() or the fpathconf() function. |
| ESPIPE | 3469 | Seek request is not supported for object. | A seek request was specified for an object that does not support seeking. |
| ENOSYS | 3470 | Function not implemented. | An attempt was made to use a function that is not available in this implementation for any object or any arguments. |
| EISDIR | 3471 | Specified target is a directory. | The path specified named a directory where a file or object name was expected. |
| EROFS | 3472 | Read-only file system. | You have attempted an update operation in a file system that only supports read operations. |
| EC2 | 3473 | C2 pointer validation error. | |
| EUNKNOWN | 3474 | Unknown system state. | The operation failed because of an unknown system state. See any messages in the job log and correct any errors that are indicated, then retry the operation. |
| EITERBAD | 3475 | Iterator is not valid. | |
| EITERSTE | 3476 | Iterator is in wrong state for operation. | |
| EHRICLSBAD | 3477 | HRI class is not valid. | |
| EHRICLBAD | 3478 | HRI subclass is not valid. | |
| EHRITYPBAD | 3479 | HRI type is not valid. | |
| ENOTAPPL | 3480 | Data requested is not applicable. | |
| EHRIREQTYP | 3481 | HRI request type is not valid. | |
| EHRINAMEBAD | 3482 | HRI resource name is not valid. | |
| EDAMAGE | 3484 | A damaged object was encountered. | |
| ELOOP | 3485 | A loop exists in the symbolic links. | This error is issued if the number of symbolic links encountered is more than POSIX_SYMLOOP (defined in the limits.h header file). Symbolic links are encountered during resolution of the directory or path name. |
| ENAMETOOLONG | 3486 | A path name is too long. | A path name is longer than PATH_MAX characters or some component of the name is longer than NAME_MAX characters while _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is in effect. For symbolic links, the length of the name string substituted for a symbolic link exceeds PATH_MAX. The PATH_MAX and NAME_MAX values can be determined using the pathconf() function. |
| ENOLCK | 3487 | No locks are available. | A system-imposed limit on the number of simultaneous file and record locks was reached, and no more were available at that time. |
| ENOTEMPTY | 3488 | Directory is not empty. | You tried to remove a directory that is not empty. A directory cannot contain objects when it is being removed. |
| ENOSYSRSC | 3489 | System resources are not available. | |
| ECONVERT | 3490 | Conversion error. | One or more characters could not be converted from the source CCSID to the target CCSID. |
| E2BIG | 3491 | Argument list is too long. | |
| EILSEQ | 3492 | Conversion stopped due to input character that does not belong to the input codeset. | |
| ETYPE | 3493 | Object type mismatch. | The type of the object referenced by a descriptor does not match the type specified on the interface. |
| EBADDIR | 3494 | Attempted to reference a directory that was not found or was destroyed. | |
| EBADOBJ | 3495 | Attempted to reference an object that was not found, was destroyed, or was damaged. | |
| EIDXINVAL | 3496 | Data space index used as a directory is not valid. | |
| ESOFTDAMAGE | 3497 | Object has soft damage. | |
| ENOTENROLL | 3498 | User is not enrolled in system distribution directory. | You attempted to use a function that requires you to be enrolled in the system distribution directory and you are not. |
| EOFFLINE | 3499 | Object is suspended. | You have attempted to use an object that has had its data saved and the storage associated with it freed. An attempt to retrieve the object's data failed. The object's data cannot be used until it is successfully restored. The object's data was saved and freed either by saving the object with the STG(*FREE) parameter, or by calling an API. |
| EROOBJ | 3500 | Object is read-only. | You have attempted to update an object that can be read only. |
| EEAHDDSI | 3501 | Hard damage on extended attribute data space index. | |
| EEASDDSI | 3502 | Soft damage on extended attribute data space index. | |
| EEAHDDS | 3503 | Hard damage on extended attribute data space. | |
| EEASDDS | 3504 | Soft damage on extended attribute data space. | |
| EEADUPRC | 3505 | Duplicate extended attribute record. | |
| ELOCKED | 3506 | Area being read from or written to is locked. | The read or write of an area conflicts with a lock held by another process. |
| EFBIG | 3507 | Object too large. | The size of the object would exceed the system allowed maximum size. |
| EIDRM | 3509 | The semaphore, shared memory, or message queue identifier is removed from the system. | |
| ENOMSG | 3510 | The queue does not contain a message of the desired type and (msgflg logically ANDed with IPC_NOWAIT). | |
| EFILECVT | 3511 | File ID conversion of a directory failed. | To recover from this error, run the Reclaim Storage (RCLSTG) command as soon as possible. |
| EBADFID | 3512 | A file ID could not be assigned when linking an object to a directory. | The file ID table is missing or damaged. To recover from this error, run the Reclaim Storage (RCLSTG) command as soon as possible. |
| ESTALE | 3513 | File or object handle rejected by server. | |
| ESRCH | 3515 | No such process. | |
| ENOTSIGINIT | 3516 | Process is not enabled for signals. | An attempt was made to call a signal function
under one of the following conditions:
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| ECHILD | 3517 | No child process. | |
| EBADH | 3520 | Handle is not valid. | |
| ETOOMANYREFS | 3523 | The operation would have exceeded the maximum number of references allowed for a descriptor. | |
| ENOTSAFE | 3524 | Function is not allowed. | Function is not allowed in a job that is running with multiple threads. |
| EOVERFLOW | 3525 | Object is too large to process. | The object's data size exceeds the limit allowed by this function. |
| EJRNDAMAGE | 3526 | Journal is damaged. | A journal or all of the journal's attached journal receivers are damaged, or the journal sequence number has exceeded the maximum value allowed. This error occurs during operations that were attempting to send an entry to the journal. |
| EJRNINACTIVE | 3527 | Journal is inactive. | The journaling state for the journal is *INACTIVE. This error occurs during operations that were attempting to send an entry to the journal. |
| EJRNRCVSPC | 3528 | Journal space or system storage error. | The attached journal receiver does not have space for the entry because the storage limit has been exceeded for the system, the object, the user profile, or the group profile. This error occurs during operations that were attempting to send an entry to the journal. |
| EJRNRMT | 3529 | Journal is remote. | The journal is a remote journal. Journal entries cannot be sent to a remote journal. This error occurs during operations that were attempting to send an entry to the journal. |
| ENEWJRNRCV | 3530 | New journal receiver is needed. | A new journal receiver must be attached to the journal before entries can be journaled. This error occurs during operations that were attempting to send an entry to the journal. |
| ENEWJRN | 3531 | New journal is needed. | The journal was not completely created, or an attempt to delete it did not complete successfully. This error occurs during operations that were attempting to start or end journaling, or were attempting to send an entry to the journal. |
| EJOURNALED | 3532 | Object already journaled. | A start journaling operation was attempted on an object that is already being journaled. |
| EJRNENTTOOLONG | 3533 | Entry is too large to send. | The journal entry generated by this operation is too large to send to the journal. |
| EDATALINK | 3534 | Object is a datalink object. | |
| ENOTAVAIL | 3535 | Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (ASP) is not available. | The independent ASP is in Vary Configuration (VRYCFG) or Reclaim Storage (RCLSTG) processing. To recover from this error, wait until processing has completed for the independent ASP. |
| ENOTTY | 3536 | I/O control operation is not appropriate. | |
| EFBIG2 | 3540 | Attempt to write or truncate file past its sort file size limit. | |
| ETXTBSY | 3543 | Text file busy. | An attempt was made to execute an IBM® i PASE program that is currently open for writing, or an attempt has been made to open for writing an IBM PASE for i program that is being executed. |
| EASPGRPNOTSET | 3544 | ASP group not set for thread. | |
| ERESTART | 3545 | A system call was interrupted and may be restarted. | |
| ESCANFAILURE | 3546 | Object had scan failure. | An object has been marked as a scan failure due to processing by an exit program associated with the scan-related integrated file system exit points. |