COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.08+, J06.03+)

return-code
is an identifier of a numeric data item in which an error value will be returned. The expected
values and their respective meanings are:
MeaningValue
The call was correct.0
The file-name does not name a sort-merge file.1
The param-id does not have one of the allowed values.2
The param-value is outside the allowed range.3
If subsort-or-file-number is used to specify subsort-number, one of these is true:4
• subsort-number was not within the range of the specified number of subsorts.
• subsort-number was required but not specified.
• subsort-number was specified, was nonzero and a subsort-number was not
legal for this parameter.
If subsort-or-file-number is used to specify file-number, then file-number is
not within the range 1 through 32.
Space for the options block cannot be allocated.5
ZCOBDLL Routines 625