is xmtm the exact same as base in the $EDI_ROOT/bin directory?
do a chksum on both executables. Make sure the numbers are the same.
if not:
1. stopserver
2. cd $EDI_ROOT/bin
3. rm xmtm
4. xlink base xmtm
5. cd ../
6. rm -rf xmtm_run_dir
7. startserver
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> Hello, I'm new to the group but happy to know that it exists and
> looking forward to contributing.
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> If this is an inappropriate forum for my question, please let me know.
>
> What lead me here, however, is a problem I've been unable to diagnose.
> Background: We use Gentran:Server for Unix v5.2-1, we do not have a
> current service agreement with Sterling Commerce, the Knowledge Base
> has proven (for the first time in my experience) inadequate to the
> task, and this error is just plain weird.
>
> One of our custom translate data managers, xmtm, suddenly started
> shutting down this past Saturday morning, and the error for the
> xmtm.l is:
>
> xmtm:6905:01192005:135106: 0:Began inmtm/HAN40102
> 14I.00IM9D.010194935:
> xmtm:6905:01192005:135111:-16:error writing file:
> xmtm:6905:01192005:135111: -1:Ended, pid=6905:
>
> I looked up "-16:error writing file" on the Sterling Knowledge Base
> and was told:
>
> Here is the solution: Getting -16 error message from data manager.
> GENTRAN:Server for UNIX. This error will shut down the data manager.
>
> Write error for write_chk failure
>
> The data manager is unable to write (update or create) a file to a
> critical area. There should be another error close to the error 16
> with the information of the exact problem. Possibilities could be:
>
> Not being able to write .chkpt file in scan directory
> (WORK_DIRECTORY)
> Not being able to write file to the destination directory
> Disk drive busy
> Disk drive full
>
> Well, the file system is only 72% full, the xmtm is not our only
> translate data managers but it is the only one that is failing, and it
> only fails intermittently with no discernible pattern to the data that
> it fails on. The xmtm_xltr.scr is finishing with a 0 return code and
> the data being processed is being passed, but the $XL_OUTFNAME file
> (shown in the example above) is not being deleted (which is where the
> "error writing file" comes from). Nothing is clear about this issue.
> It happens a couple of dozen times a day. We clear the .chkpt.xmtm
> file from the scan directory, clear the $XL_OUTFNAME file from the run
> directory, and restart the data manager. Sometimes it will continue
> running for hours, sometimes it will fail again rapidly. Again, no
> pattern.
>
> I've asked the Unix guys to see if they notice any odd behavior at the
> OS level: No. I've inserted a bdf command into the translator script
> to see what the file system space is at the time of execution: Nothing
> abnormal. Nothing about this makes sense. This is neither a new data
> manager, nor a new translate script, and nothing has changed about
> this entire process and it had been running error free for well over a
> year before this Saturday morning.
>
> I am at wit's end and would appreciate ANY thoughts on this
> whatsoever.
>
> Regards.
>
> Ron Paquin
> Sr. Systems Analyst
> Pactiv Corporation
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