Thank you for the assistance with our problem. It turns out our secondary index which allows non-unique records was running into the default limit.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. John -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 5:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VSAM Return Code 44 Received on Write to Fixed Length File Then u get some default. Do a LISTC on the AIX to see what it is. You might want to PRINT the records in the AIX itself just to see. Or on an EXAMINE on it. On Nov 19, 2012 6:52 PM, "John Weber" <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting about a secondary status variable. We'll investigate that. > > Regarding the AIX definitions. We do not include a RECORDSIZE parameter. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: VSAM Return Code 44 Received on Write to Fixed Length > File > > My habit with VSAM is to use the second COBOL FILE STATUS variable to > get the actual VSAM return and reason codes. Often that is the only > way to determine the actual reason. > > What comes to mind in your case is that the RECORDSIZE on your AIX is > too small to record all the base keys associated with a single AIX > key. This can cause a 44. Normally these keys are either ALL SPACES or > ALL LOW-VALUES or maybe ALL HIGH-VALUES. > On Nov 19, 2012 6:21 PM, "John Weber" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The only sysprint from the job is the status code display from the > program. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 3:28 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: VSAM Return Code 44 Received on Write to Fixed Length > > File > > > > Could you post the IDC messages for the 44? > > > > Lizette > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > >From: John Weber <[email protected]> > > >Sent: Nov 19, 2012 4:11 PM > > >To: [email protected] > > >Subject: VSAM Return Code 44 Received on Write to Fixed Length File > > > > > >We are using a batch process to write account records to a VSAM > > >file while also writing records to an audit file which is also a VSAM file. > > > > > >Both files include an index and several alternate indexes. > > >Each alternate index allows duplicates (NONUNIQUEKEY). > > > > > >The audit file receives a VSAM return code of 44 and discontinues > > >writing after writing 3,258 of 10,000 records. > > > > > >Neither file is a variable file so the explanation of return code > > >44 is not relevant to the problem or solution. (44 - REWRITE of > > >different size record) > > > > > >The sizing in our allocations of our primary data and secondary > > >index elements are appropriate for both files given the data in this > > >exercise. > > > > > >Please advise on problem solving this issue and/or what additional > > information is needed. > > > > > >Thank you... > > > > > >John > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- > > >- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO > > >IBM-MAIN > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO > > IBM-MAIN > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO > > IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
