Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-25 Thread Dana Mitchell
On 24 March 2010 13:32, Yifat Oren yi...@tmachine.com wrote: Hi, I have recieved some TERSED SMF records and am unable to UNPACK them. SNIP AMA574I  RECORD FOUND IS LONGER THAN THE LRECL AMA555I  THE VALUES ARE:  BLKSIZE= 8760    LRECL=8756    PACKTYPE=PACK Yifat, When you say you

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:45:28 -0500, Dana Mitchell wrote: When you say you 'received' some tersed SMF records, was this file perhaps FTP'ed to you? I have seen this message in the past when a file was tersed, then FTP'ed to another site. Make sure when the file is FTP'ed, to include STRUCTURE

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On 25 March 2010 18:06, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:45:28 -0500, Dana Mitchell wrote: When you say you 'received' some tersed SMF records,  was this file perhaps FTP'ed to you?  I have seen this message in the past when a file was tersed, then FTP'ed to

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:02:49 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: Maybe.  But the first 3 FTP clients I tried call that invalid command. This is unique to the z/OS ftp client and server, I believe. (Possibly the AS/400 supports something similar.) It's not clear what a platform like UNIX or Windows

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-25 Thread Yifat Oren
Mark, Tony, Dana, Brian, Thanks very much for your responses, they were of great help. I am now pretty much convinced that EBCDIC to ASCII conversion during the FTP transfer had caused the problem. Still am not sure the AMATERSE error should have been AMA574I; I'd prefer AN EXPECTED END OF

AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-24 Thread Yifat Oren
Hi, I have recieved some TERSED SMF records and am unable to UNPACK them. Without specifying DCB attributes for the output, the error message I get is: AMA574I RECORD FOUND IS LONGER THAN THE LRECL AMA555I THE VALUES ARE: BLKSIZE= 8760LRECL=8756PACKTYPE=PACK From System

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Pace
Did they possibly terse the data from a tape? On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Yifat Oren yi...@tmachine.com wrote: Hi, I have recieved some TERSED SMF records and am unable to UNPACK them. Without specifying DCB attributes for the output, the error message I get is: AMA574I RECORD

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Peterson
My first suspicion is that something odd happened when the file was originally tersed. If it was me, I would ask that the person who provided the tersed file show me the exact job output which generated the tersed file. I would specifically be looking for any possible DCB overrides used on the

Re: AMATERSE: AMA574I. Wrong message?

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 24 March 2010 13:32, Yifat Oren yi...@tmachine.com wrote: Hi, I have recieved some TERSED SMF records and am unable to UNPACK them. Without specifying DCB attributes for the output, the error message I get is: AMA574I  RECORD FOUND IS LONGER THAN THE LRECL AMA555I  THE VALUES ARE: