As Daniel pointed out yesterday, the Exit line can only accept up to 256. After that it uses the Mod of the number and 256. 942 Mod 256 is 174. Hence, the reason you are getting 174 back. If you really need the value of the error message and the exact sqlcode you will have to use a different method . Maybe a hybrid between using the exit code and writing the actual error message out to a file. -----Original Message----- From: Ranjeesh K R. [mailto:ranjeeshk@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:35 AM Subject: WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE||SQLERRM & Relate ORA-ERRNO & SQLCODE Hi, Qn 1 -------- Is there any way to pass both the SQL.SQLCODE & SQLERRM to the os back ?? Qn 2 ------- When I tried WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE The actual oracle error code (ORA-00942) and the error code (174 ) returned by SQL.SQLCODE are different . So how can I get the info. that is related to SQL.SQLCODE eg : For this test program ------------------------ rm -f /home/etladm/test/test.log sqlplus -S <<EOF >> /home/etladm/test/test.log ranjeeshk/ics set verify on time on timing on term on echo on feedback on serveroutput on WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE -- WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQLERRM select sysdate sdate from dua; exit 1 EOF echo "Number of rows are: $?" >> /home/etladm/test/test.log echo " -------- Log file -------- \n" cat /home/etladm/test/test.log The output was ----------------------- etladm@stdwdev2:/home/etladm/test>. ./test.ksh -------- Log file -------- select sysdate sdate from dua * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist Number of rows are: 174 etladm@stdwdev2:/home/etladm/test> So how can I link ORA-00942 and SQLCODE 174 ? with thanks in advance Ranjeesh K R ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------