A VMARC file should be FIXED 80, (but V 80 may work as well).  To be axact:
  PIPE < MONVIEW VMARC A | FBLOCK 80 00 | > NEWFILE VMARC A F 80

2008/3/27, Austin, Alyce (CIV) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Berry and Mike,
>
> Your pipe commands appear to have worked.  After issuing them this is
> what I see:
>
> CP2KVMXT VMARC    A1                  V    80       2629       53
> 3/26/08 14:55
> MONVIEW  VMARC    A1                  V    80        756       16
> 3/26/08 14:53
>
> For the below file, I issued the following command and the vmarc module
> went from a size of 81XX to 13464:
>
> PIPE < vmarc module a | deblcok cms | > vmarc module a:
>
> VMARC    MODULE   A1                  V 13464          3        4
> 3/26/08 13:20
>
> Does this look right now?
>
> Thank you for all your help,
>
>
> Alyce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>
> Behalf Of Berry van Sleeuwen
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: MONWRITE files
>
> Hello Alyce,
>
> As Mike said, looks like a upload error.
>
> I guess these are from the IBM VM packages, in that case upload to VM in
>
> binary mode, Recfm fixed and lrecl 80.
>
> If you can't upload with specifing recordlayout you also can upload in
> binary and use the PIPE FBLOCK to restore the correct layout. (Upload
> binary and next issue 'PIPE < MONVIEW VMARC A | FBLOCK 80 00 | > NEWFILE
>
> VMARC A') I use this because my ftp client doesn't provide the
> recordlayout so I end up with 8K blocks instead of fixed 80 byte
> records. BTW, perhaps you can use this also on the files you now already
>
> have on your mindisk.
>
> These files usually hold more than one file. I assume, based on the
> console messages, that only a part of the files (monview script and
> cp2kvmxt exec) is now on disk. At some point, either at the end of a
> record or at the end of a file invalid data is found. So delete the
> files that were unpacked, upload the VMARC files again and unpack again.
>
> Regards, Berry.
>
> Austin, Alyce (CIV) schreef:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I issue the following vmarc commands in preparation for the
> > monwrite procedures,
> >
> > this is what I get:
> >
> > vmarc unpk monview vmarc a
> >
> > MONVIEW SCRIPT A1. Bytes in= 11776, bytes out= 6168 ( 52%).
> >
> > Invalid header for compacted file.
> >
> > Ready(00008); T=0.01/0.01 13:38:10
> >
> > vmarc unpk cp2kvmxt vmarc a
> >
> > CP2KVMXT EXEC A1. Bytes in= 17652, bytes out= 152800 ( 865%).
> >
> > Invalid header for compacted file.
> >
> > Ready(00008); T=0.05/0.05 13:38:30
> >
> > I assume that the correct files were created; that is, "monview
> > script" and "cp2kvmxt exec"
> >
> > even though I got an invalid header after issuing the commands. Is
> > this the case?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alyce
> >
> >
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>
> > *On Behalf Of *Stefan Raabe
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:36 AM
> > *To:* [email protected]
> > *Subject:* Re: MONWRITE files
> >
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