II02863: COMMON USER ERRORS IN PDF RESULTING IN ERROR MESSAGES OR UNEXPECTED RESULTS

APAR status

• Closed as user error.

Error description

• R102   566526801  HDV1102,   566596001  HIF1102
  R202   566531701  HDV2202,   566531901  HIF2202
  R302   566531701  HDV2302,   566531901  HIF2302
  R102   566540201  HDV3102
  
  THIS APAR DESCRIBES USER ERRORS THAT PRODUCE UNEXPECTED RESULTS
  OR ERROR MESSAGES THAT MAY NOT CLEARLY POINT TO THE PROBLEM.
  IT ALSO EXPLAINS HOW TO DETERMINE THE ID NUMBER OF A PDF ERROR
  MESSAGE (SEE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW).  THE FOLLOWING ITEMS MAY
  PERTAIN TO ONE, TWO OR ALL THREE RELEASES OF ISPF/PDF:
  
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  1.  MSGISPG050   'DOWN IS NOT ACTIVE' 'THE COMMAND OR PF KEY
                   ENTERED IS NOT DEFINED'  (OR 'UP', 'LEFT',
                   'RIGHT' NOT ACTIVE)
  DESCRIPTION:  USER IS UNABLE TO SCROLL IN ANY DIRECTION UNDER
  OPT2 ON THE DATA ENTRY PANEL.  SEE ALSO ITEM 1A, BELOW.
  SOLUTION:     IF THE PDF DATA ENTRY PANEL (ISREDDE) HAS BEEN
  MODIFIED OR REPLACED (E.G., SOME NON-IBM LIBRARY ORGANIZING
  PRODUCTS SHIP A DATA ENTRY PANEL WHICH IS MEANT TO REPLACE THE
  PDF PANEL), VERIFY THAT SCROLL HAS NOT BEEN TURNED OFF IN THE
  )ATTR SECTION OF THE PANEL DEFINITION.
  
  1A. MSGISPG050   'DOWN IS NOT ACTIVE' 'THE COMMAND OR PF KEY
                   ENTERED IS NOT DEFINED' (OR 'UP', 'LEFT',
                   'RIGHT' NOT ACTIVE)
  DESCRIPTION:  USER IS UNABLE TO SCROLL WHILE IN "DIALOGS" USING
  LIBDEF TO ISPLLIB, AND RUNNING A PROC OR CLIST THAT POINTS TO
  STEPLIB AND/OR ISPLLIB.  ALSO SEE ITEM 1, ABOVE.
  SOLUTION:     THE LIBDEF SHOULD POINT TO THE SAME ISRLOAD AND
  ISPLOAD THAT IS POINTED TO BY THE PROC OR CLIST STEPLIB AND/OR
  ISPLLIB.  LIBDEF CHANGES THE SEARCH ORDER, CAUSING LPALIB AND
  LINKLIB TO BE SEARCHED BEFORE STEPLIB AND ISPLLIB.  REFER TO
  SEARCH SEQUENCE FOR LIBRARIES CHART IN THE LIBDEF SECTION OF
  THE ISPF DIALOG MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND EXAMPLES MANUAL.
  
  2.  MSGISRE904   'I/O ERROR READING DATA' 'I/O ERROR OCCURRED
                   READING THE EDIT DATA.  CHECK BLOCKSIZES'   OR
      MSGISRB108   'I/O ERROR' AN I/O ERROR WAS ENCOUNTERED
                   READING THE FIRST RECORD'   OR
      MSGISRB107   'EMPTY DATA SET OR MEMBER' 'EMPTY PDS MEMBER
                   OR SEQUENTIAL DATA SET HAS BEEN REQUESTED'
  DESCRIPTION:  A SECOND EDIT ON A DATA SET THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN
  OPENED VIA AN LMOPEN FOR OUTPUT MAY RESULT IN AN I/O ERROR OR
  EMPTY MEMBER.
  EXPLANATION:  SEE OY00729.  DO NOT INVOKE EDIT, DISPLAY OR
  TBDISPL BETWEEN AN LMOPEN FOR OUTPUT AND AN LMCLOSE FOR OUTPUT.
  AN LMOPEN CAUSES A DCB TO BE CREATED.  DISPLAYING ANY PANEL
  WHILE A DATA SET IS OPEN FOR OUTPUT ENABLES USERS TO EDIT THE
  ALREADY OPENED DATA SET, THUS CAUSING A SECOND DCB TO BE CREATED
  WHEN CHANGES ARE SAVED.  THIS WILL RESULT IN DUPLICATE POINTERS
  (DUP TTR) TO THE SAME DATA SET MEMBER. SEE ALSO OY07766.
  
  3.  VOLUME MOUNT NOT REQUESTED BEFORE UNCATALOGING A DATA SET
  DESCRIPTION:  ENTERING A 'U' TO UNCATALOG A DATA SET THAT IS NOT
  MOUNTED UNCATALOGS THE DATA SET WITHOUT REQUESTING A MOUNT EVEN
  THOUGH APPROPRIATE PDF PANELS HAVE BEEN MODIFIED TO REQUEST A
  MOUNT.
  EXPLANATION:  OZ92356 CHANGED PANELS ISRUDSLX, ISRUDSL0 AND
  ISRUDL1 SO THEY CAN BE MODIFIED TO FORCE A VOLUME MOUNT WHEN UN-
  CATALOGING A DATA SET.  HOWEVER, THE USER MUST ALSO HAVE MOUNT
  AUTHORITY IN THE UADS OR THE MOUNT REQUEST WILL NOT BE ISSUED,
  AND PROCESSING WILL CONTINUE AS IF THE PANELS HAD NOT BEEN
  MODIFIED.
  
  4.  MSGISRLQ005   'SORT FAILED' EXTERNAL SORT PROGRAM RETURNED
                    AN ERROR CODE OF 16'
  DESCRIPTION:  IF IN-CORE SORTS ARE PREVENTED (SORT PACKAGES MAY
  HAVE AN OPTION TO DISABLE IN-CORE SORTS), THE LMF CONTROL INFOR-
  MATION CANNOT BE SORTED, AND THE ABOVE ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE
  ISSUED.
  SOLUTION:     CONFIGURE THE SORT PROGRAM TO ALLOW IN-CORE SORTS,
  OR INCLUDE A DDCARD IN THE LOGON PROC THAT POINTS TO AN ALTER-
  NATE SET OF INITIALIZATION PARMS THAT ALLOWS IN-CORE SORTS.
  
  5.  LOAD MODULE ALIAS COPY RESULTS
  DESCRIPTION:  UNPREDICTABLE OR UNUSUAL RESULTS OCCUR AFTER LOAD
  MODULE MEMBERS ARE COPIED VIA OPT3.3 (OPT33 ).
  SOLUTION:  IF OPT3.3 IS USED, THE MAIN MEMBER SHOULD BE COPIED
  FIRST.  THE ALIAS NAME CAN THEN BE COPIED (REFER TO PGS 199-200
  OF THE PDF PROGRAM REFERENCE, SC34402401).  SEE APAR OZ75275 FOR
  ALTERNATE MEANS OF COPYING LOAD MODULE ALIASES.
  
  6.  MSGISPP100 'PANEL... ERROR' 'PANEL NOT FOUND', OR
      OTHER UNPREDICTABLE RESULTS
  DESCRIPTION:  EXECUTING THE ISFRPR PROGRAM UNDER ISPF/PDF OPT7
  (DIALOG TEST), OPT6 (TSO COMMAND PROCESSOR), OR OUTSIDE ISPF
  RESULTS IN THE ABOVE MESSAGE.
  SOLUTION:  ALTHOUGH APAR OY17566 HAS ADDRESSED THIS SITUATION,
  THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS STILL APPLY:
  ISRFPR HAS CHANGED BETWEEN ISPF/PDF RELEASE 2.2 AND 2.3, IN
  PART, IN THE WAY PARMS ARE PROCESSED.  PASSING INCOMPLETE OR
  INCORRECT PARAMETERS CAN RESULT IN THE ABOVE MESSAGE.  USERS
  SHOULD REVIEW THE PDF FOREGROUND SELECTION PANEL (ISRFPA)
  DEFINITION FOR THE RELEASE THEY ARE RUNNING.  THE )PROC SECTION
  WILL INDICATE THE SYNTAX OF THE PANEL PARAMETER THAT SHOULD BE
  PASSED.  USERS ARE REMINDED THAT DATA BETWEEN THE PARM'S SET OF
  LEFT AND RIGHT PARENTHESES SHOULD BE PASSED VERBATIM.
   -- UNDER ISPF/PDF RELEASE 2.3, AN EXAMPLE OF THE PARM
      EXPECTED BY PGM ISRFPR IS:   (ISRFP01) 1
   -- THEREFORE, IF SELECTED FROM A PANEL THE SELECTION IN THE
      PANEL )PROC SECTION WILL BE:
                 1, 'PGM(ISRFPR) PARM((ISRFP01) 1) NEWPOOL'
   -- UNDER RELEASE 2.2, ISRFPR EXPECTS A PARM LIKE:   ISRFP01
  (NOTE: EXECUTING ISPF PROGRAMS IN A MANNER OTHER THAN THROUGH
  THE ISPF/PDF PRIMARY OPTION MENU AND APPROPRIATE SELECTION PANEL
  IS NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED BY THE PDF CHANGE TEAM.)  ALSO SEE
  ITEM 7, BELOW.
  
  7.  MSGISPP100 'PANEL... ERROR' 'PANEL NOT FOUND',  OR
      ABEND806,  OR OTHER UNPREDICTABLE RESULTS
  DESCRIPTION:  WHEN MODIFIED AND/OR COPIED PANELS FROM PRIOR
  ISPF/PDF RELEASES ARE USED WITH A NEWER ISPF/PDF RELEASE, AN
  UNPREDICTABLE ERROR MAY OCCUR.
  SOLUTION:  ONLY THOSE PANELS SHIPPED WITH A PARTICULAR RELEASE
  SHOULD BE MODIFIED AND/OR USED UNDER THAT RELEASE.  THIS IS BE-
  CAUSE PROCESSING OF THE PANEL AS DEFINED IN THE )PROC SECTIONS
  MAY HAVE CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY BETWEEN RELEASE 1.1, 2.2, AND
  2.3 (E.G., SOME PANELS USED SUCCESSFULLY UNDER RELEASE 2.2 WILL
  NOT PROCESS UNDER RELEASE 2.3).  ALSO SEE ITEM 6, ABOVE.
  
  8.  WAIT, HANG, OR TIMEOUT ABEND522
  DESCRIPTION:  A PROGRAM EXECUTED (E.G., SUPERC, ISRSUPC, ETC.)
  IN BATCH USING DATA SETS THAT RESIDE ON TAPE DOES NOT COMPLETE.
  REASON:  PDF DOES NOT SUPPORT DATA SETS THAT RESIDE ON TAPE.
  ADDITIONAL SYMPTOMS: WAIT MAY BE IN MODULE IGG019AQ AT X'4E'
  
  89/06/20-THE ISPF/PDF GUIDE SC34-4135-0 ( VERSION 3 FOR MVS )
           ON PAGE NUMBER 332 INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXT.
  
           NOTE: ISPF/PDF DOES NOT SUPPORT TAPE OR MULTI-VOLUME
                 DATA SETS.
  
           THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO TRUE FOR ANY PREVIOUS
           RELEASE OF ISPF/PDF.
  

Local fix

• ISPFINFO   UPDATED 87/04/24 SJW
  PDFINFO    UPDATED 89/09/28 BMM
  

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

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Comments

• THIS IS AN INFORMATIONAL APAR FOR ISPF/PDF, HDV2202.
  
  FOLLOWING IS AN EXPLANATION OF HOW TO DETERMINE THE MESSAGE
  NUMBER OF A SHORT MESSAGE THAT APPEARS IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER
  OF A PDF PANEL.
  
  IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING PDF IN ISPF TEST MODE, SPLIT THE SCREEN
  AND MOMENTARILY GO TO OPTION 7 DIALOG TEST ON THE NEW SCREEN.
  THIS WILL CAUSE ISPF TO GO INTO TEST MODE AND IT WILL REMAIN IN
  TEST MODE FOR THE REST OF THE ISPF SESSION.  THEN, SWAP BACK TO
  THE SCREEN WITH THE SHORT MESSAGE.  PRESS THE PF1 (HELP) KEY TO
  SEE THE LONG MESSAGE.  PRESS THE PF1 KEY AGAIN TO GET A TUTORIAL
  PANEL.  WHEN ISPF IS RUNNING IN TEST MODE, ANY TUTORIAL PANEL
  DISPLAYED WILL HAVE A BOTTOM LINE SHOWING CURRENT PANELID, PRE-
  VIOUS PANELID AND LAST MESSAGE ID.  THE LAST MESSAGE ID IS THE
  ID OF THE SHORT MESSAGE THAT APPEARED ON THE PDF PANEL.
  

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