ANS1102E   An excessive number of command line arguments are passed to the program.

Explanation

This command processing routine received more operands than it can use. The rules are:
  • Query can contain only one file specification.
  • Restore and Retrieve can contain two file specifications.
  • Archive, Incremental, and Selective can contain a maximum of 20 file specifications. To bypass the 20-operand limit, use the -REMOVEOPERANDLIMIT option on the failing archive, incremental, or selective command.

Note: The Client operates much more efficiently if it expands wild cards internally, rather than accepting the expanded list from the shell.

System action

Processing stopped.

User response

Reduce the number of arguments and retry the operation. For UNIX-based systems, ensure that you have surrounded the specification containing pattern matching characters with quotes. As an alternative, use the -REMOVEOPERANDLIMIT option on the failing archive, incremental, or selective command.