LSPACE returns information to a 40-byte expanded message return area ( Figure 1). By providing an expanded message return area with the EXPMSG option, LSPACE returns EBCDIC text, qualified by return codes as shown in Table 1.

Even though the expanded message return area displays the same return code information as the standard message return area, the space information provided for return code zero consists of six-digit values (aaaaaa instead of aaaa).

LSPMSG   DSECT           Expanded Message Area
LSPETEXT DS    CL40      Expanded Message Text