AIX Tip of the Week

AIX 5 Error Messages and Codes

Audience: All

Date: May 6, 2003

Beginning with AIX5L, IBM discontinued the publication of the Messages Guide & Reference whitebook [SC23-4129]. This info is now available using a web applet that allows you to look up one error message at a time.

http://www16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/infocenter/base/errorsearch.htm

Doug Ranz has put together a PDF file containing all the error codes. It is available on his web site at:

http://rainsux.dyndns.org/AIX5L-Messages-Codes.html


Bruce Spencer,
baspence@us.ibm.com