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by **Dean** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:55 pm

Hi.

I am getting the below error

ICE043A 3 INVALID DATA SET ATTRIBUTES: SORTIN RECFM - REASON CODE IS 10

The manual says this is due to a sortin DD of dummy or null or RECFM not specified. below is my JCL

000052 //*** OUTPUT ***
000053 //EXTRACT DD DSN=&&A643FILE,
000054 // DISP=(,PASS,DELETE),
000055 // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=155,BLKSIZE=27900),
000056 // UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(1000,100),RLSE)
000057 //*
000058 //*----------------------------------------------------------
000059 //STEP030 EXEC PGM=SORT
000060 //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
000061 //SORTIN DD DSN=&&A643FILE
000062 //SORTOUT DD DSN=&&O45FILE,
000063 // DISP=(,PASS,DELETE),
000064 // UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(1500,500),RLSE)
000065 //SYSIN DD *
000066 INCLUDE COND=(44,3,PD,EQ,45)
000067 OPTION COPY,DYNALLOC

I have a similarly coded step later in the job that works just fine.

by **Peter_Mann** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:43 pm

Are you showing the entire job/process?
I have to assume &&A643FILE is a temporary file that came from a previous step? not coding a DISP=, NEW is assumed I belive, so the IEC043A message is leading you to the answer
The record format cannot be determined or is not valid for DFSORT
processing. Examples: The SORTIN data set has DUMMY or NULLFILE but does not have RECFM=value. The SORTOUT data set has RECFM=U.
if &&A643FILE did come from a previous step it may be empty, never opened, but passed to this step.
just a wild guess

by **Dean** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:56 pm

Are you showing the entire job/process?

Yes and No. The EXTRACT DD is the from the previous job step which is the first step of the job. It excecutes an EZtrieve against some GDG's to produce the &&A643FILE dataset. According to the job statistics of that step &&A643FILE contains over 1 million records.

I'm not sure why how the dataset was produced is significant but there it is.

by **Anuj Dhawan** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:59 pm

In STEP030 for //SORTIN DD DSN=&&A643FILE try using DISP=SHR or DISP=(OLD,PASS) and see if it works.

by **Peter_Mann** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:04 pm

Dean wrote:
Are you showing the entire job/process?

Yes and No. The EXTRACT DD is the from the previous job step which is the first step of the job. It excecutes an EZtrieve against some GDG's to produce the &&A643FILE dataset. According to the job statistics of that step &&A643FILE contains over 1 million records.

I'm not sure why how the dataset was produced is significant but there it is.

Then absolutly you need to specify a DISP compatible with the dataset, DISP=(OLD,PASS), or DISP=SHR or DISP=OLD, if you still have problems, I'd suggest createing a real cataloged dataset and see if the previous step actually opened the file and wrote data into it.

by **Dean** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:18 pm

Well..thanks!!

That fixed DFSORT.

I guess I am having trouble with the DISP rules for temporary datasets. When I add a DISP=SHR the ICE043A goes away but I get this is the JESYSMSG

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20 IEF648I INVALID DISP FIELD- PASS SUBSTITUTED

When I change it to DISP=PASS I get a JCL error and this in JESYSMSG

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20 IEF643I UNIDENTIFIED POSITIONAL PARAMETER IN THE DISP FIELD

Seems kinda Schizophrenic

by **Peter_Mann** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:21 pm

show is the entire JESLOG in the CODE tag...
we need to see line 20
the IEF648I is informational, you'll see this alot with treu temp datasets wieh coding OLD or SHR, but that's not the error

by **Peter_Mann** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:22 pm

Peter_Mann wrote:show is the entire JESLOG in the CODE tag...
we need to see line 20
the IEF648I is informational, you'll see this alot with treu temp datasets wieh coding OLD or SHR, but that's not the error

I must be dislexic (sp) today

by **Akatsukami** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:42 pm

Dean wrote:Well..thanks!!

That fixed DFSORT.

I guess I am having trouble with the DISP rules for temporary datasets. When I add a DISP=SHR the ICE043A goes away but I get this is the JESYSMSG
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20 IEF648I INVALID DISP FIELD- PASS SUBSTITUTED

When I change it to DISP=PASS I get a JCL error and this in JESYSMSG
Select all
20 IEF643I UNIDENTIFIED POSITIONAL PARAMETER IN THE DISP FIELD

Seems kinda Schizophrenic

Remember that SHR is not really a disposition, it is a status. The status must be coded first, the (normal) disposition second. All of the following are syntactically valid:

DISP=(OLD,PASS)
DISP=(NEW,PASS)
DISP=(SHR,PASS)
DISP=(OLD,DELETE)
DISP=(NEW,DELETE)

but DISP=(PASS,anything) is not.

The default disposition for a non-NEW data set is KEEP, which is invalid for a temporary data set, although the interpreter is smart enough to realize that PASS should be substituted.

by **steve-myers** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:43 pm

The problem is

//SORTIN DD DSN=&&xxx

creates a new dataset: the default DISP is DISP=(NEW,DELETE). Since you presumably are using SMS and SMS is providing a default SPACE parameter for the DD statement, you did not get a JCL error, which you would have received before SMS.

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