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- From: STAN@VM.TEMPLE.EDU (Stan Horwitz)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
- Subject: problem opening a vsam file
- Message-ID: <IBM-MAIN%92110916215294@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:05:09 GMT
- Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion list <IBM-MAIN@RICEVM1.BITNET>
- Organization: Temple University -- Academic Computer Services
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- Hello;
-
- A student teaching assistant here has a VS COBOL II program which attempts
- to open a VSAM KSDS file which is varying in record length and also has an
- alternate index with duplicate entries. The file and its index were just
- defined so there is no data in the cluster or its aix component. She wants
- to open the file for the purpose of populating it with data. Unfortunately, an
- when the program attempts to OPEN OUTPUT the file, the program abends and
- displays the following error message:
-
- 4228I FILE SYS09 OPEN ERROR X'64'(100) CAT IJSYSUC
-
- The contents of the KSDS file's status key = 39 at this point.
-
- I have searched high and low for an informative explanation of what this
- error means and have found nothing. I know that 39 means there's a conflict
- with the way the COBOL program is describing the file and the way it was
- created, but I cannot for the life of me see where the conflict resides. I
- have looked over this many times and have tried numerous changes to get it
- to work without success. One of the administrative programmers here saw
- nothing wrong here either and he is resarching further, but I am in a hurry
- to resolve this because this is needed for an assignment that will be
- discussed in the instructor's class tomorrow afternoon. Does anyone know
- what this cryptic error means? The documentation I have has lots of error
- codes, but of course the one I need now is not documented.
-
- By the way, this is being run on an IBM 3084Q under VM/XA CMS 5.5 with the
- VS COBOL 2 V3.3 compiler. Any help in this matter will be appreciated.
-
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