The expression-handling routine could not find any operators for the expression.

AN EXPRESSION WITH OPERATORS OUT OF SEQUENCE

The expression-handling routine found an invalid combination of operators and data elements.

AN EXPRESSION WITH A CHARACTER DATA ITEM USED NUMERICALLY

The expression-handling routine found a character item used in an arithmetic operation.

A NUMBER EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE VALUE

The expression-evaluation routine found a number whose absolute value exceeded the maximum of 2,147,483,647. The expression evaluation has terminated.

EXCEEDED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER DURING EVALUATION

The result of an arithmetic operation has exceeded the maximum permissible value of 2,147,483,647.

AN UNDEFINED SYMBOLIC VARIABLE

Symbolic substitution found a variable that could not be located for its value.

ATTEMPTED TO UPDATE A SYSTEM VARIABLE

The system detected an update to a system-provided variable (for example, &SYSTIME).

AN UNDEFINED KEYWORD

The system was scanning for keywords on the statement and found one that was undefined.

A MISSING KEYWORD VALUE

The system found a keyword that required a value, but could locate no value for it.

A TERMIN STRING GREATER THAN 256 CHARACTERS

TERMIN processing found a delimiter that is too long.

MORE THAN 64 TERMIN STRINGS

TERMIN processing found that the limit for specifying TERMIN delimiter strings had been exceeded.

AN INVALID FILENAME

TRIED TO OPEN A FILE THAT IS CURRENTLY OPEN

The system found that an OPENFILE statement had already been issued for that file.

AN INVALID OPEN OPTION

The system was scanning for INPUT, OUTPUT, or UPDATE and found something else.

FAILED TO OPEN THE REQUESTED FILE

The system detected that the data control block did not open. The file name was already missing.

TRIED TO USE A FILE THAT IS NOT CURRENTLY OPEN

The system could find neither the requested file nor evidence that a task switch caused the automatic close of the file.

CAUSED A RECURSIVE CLIST ERROR

The statement was in an error range and gave a non-zero return code. This message also appears if the statement had its own diagnostic printed.

AN INVALID &SUBSTR RANGE OR EXIT CODE EXPRESSION

The &SUBSTR built-in function found invalid data or numbers in the substring range field (for example, the expression "&SUBSTR (1:10,AE)" is invalid because 10 is outside the range). The expression supplied in an ‘EXIT CODE’ statement did not resolve to a numeric value (for example, "EXIT CODE (X2)").

A MISSING BUILT-IN FUNCTION OPERAND

The system encountered a built-in function without an open parenthesis after the name.

AN INVALID SYMBOLIC VARIABLE

Except for positional parameters on PROC statements, symbolic variable names must include 1-31 alphanumeric characters, the first of which is alphabetic following an ampersand (&). PROC statement positional parameter names may have as many as 252 alphanumeric characters.

USED A LABEL AS A SYMBOLIC VARIABLE

The system was locating the name for a value and found it was a label.

REFERENCED AN INVALID OR UNDEFINED LABEL

The target of the GOTO statement could not be found or was missing entirely.

SUPPLIED AN UNREQUESTED PROMPT REPLY

The system has found a prompt reply (a line within a DATA PROMPT – ENDDATA group) that was not needed to complete the immediately preceding command.

EXCEEDED THE MAXIMUM LENGTH DURING SYMBOLIC SUBSTITUTION

THE CLIST statement length exceeds the maximum of 32,756. CLIST processing terminates.