If it’s a “system error”, how are you detecting it? If it’s an error that occurs in your program, all you should need to do is not handle it — it will be handled by a default handler and propagate up to the job’s external message queue, which is what the “job log” is.

If it’s an error that is returned in an error structure from an API, then you’ll need to send it as a message if you want it logged. The short story is simply that you’ll send a program message to the *EXT program message queue. See the Send Program Message (QMHSNDPM) API for details. And note that you’ll probably want to send it as a *DIAG message.

Tom

I have a sub-procedure that I use (WrtJoblog) which encapsulates a call to this API and can be called from any ILE program. I also have a command front end for a CL program that calls the sub-procedure so I can write messages to the job log at will.

If you want the source for the procedure, prototypes, commands, etc, let me know and I’ll send it off list.

Jonathan