Receiving Answer Area Information from a WRITE

Under certain circumstances, answer area information is not valid. See Determining if the Answer Area is Valid for information on how to determine whether the answer area information is valid.

The following list describes the information returned when the answer area is valid. The answer area is mapped by the IXLYLAA macro, which is presented inz/OS® MVS™ Data Areas in the z/OS Internet library.

LAARETCODE: The return code from the IXLLIST service. Return code values are defined in the IXLYCON macro.
LAARSNCODE: The reason code associated with the return code from the IXLLIST service. Reason code values are defined in the IXLYCON macro.
LAALISTDESC: The user-defined list description of the target list. Returned for requests that failed because the specified list authority value did not match that of the target list.
LAALISTAUTH: The user-defined list authority value of the target list. Returned for requests that failed because the specified list authority value did not match that of the target list.