ILE Conditions

To allow greater cross-system consistency, ILE has defined a feature that you can use to work with error conditions. An ILE condition is a system-independent representation of an error condition within an HLL. Each ILE condition has a corresponding exception message. An ILE condition is represented by a condition token. A condition token is a 12-byte data structure that is consistent across multiple participating systems. This data structure contains information through which you can associate the condition with the underlying exception message.

To write programs that are consistent across systems, you need to use ILE condition handlers and ILE condition tokens. For more information on ILE conditions refer to Exception and Condition Management.