IFC200I    NUMBER OF BYTES REPORTED DIFFERS FROM RECORD COUNT

Explanation

(MVS, VM, and VSE) The number of sense bytes, or bytes of statistical data, expected is not the same as the number of sense bytes recorded by the device and specified in the OBR record. EREP formats sense bytes according to the original engineering requirements for a device’s EREP support. EREP has formatted the number of sense bytes it expects to find in the record.

Programmer response

This message can appear in the report output when either:
  • The number of bytes formatted is less than the total number of bytes the device actually recorded in the OBR record. In this case, the message is informational; the unformatted sense bytes are not relevant to the EREP report.

    OR

  • The number of bytes formatted is greater than the number of bytes the device actually recorded in the OBR record, implying that the byte counts (statistical or sense) were recorded erroneously. In this case, the message indicates a problem.
If you suspect that the second case applies, perform problem determination, focusing on the device as well as on the system recording process.

Problem determination

Table 1, items 3 and 4.

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