II04420: GENERATING THE CICSPARS CROSS SYSTEM DATA SET RESULTS IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE DATA SET. 566535501 MSGECP0318W

APAR status

• Closed as user error.

Error description

• 566535501 CICSPARS/MVS HGT1103 V1R1M1
  THE FOLLOWING CICSPARS COMMANDS:
      CICS CROSS(NOPRINT,WRITES,
                 CLOCK(OWNER(USER),NUMBER(001)),
                 CLOCK(OWNER(USER),NUMBER(002)),
                 CLOCK(OWNER(USER),NUMBER(003)))
    ARE USED TO GENERATE A CROSS-SYSTEM DATA SET CONTAINING
    RECORDS FOR BOTH MERGED MULTIPLE CMF INPUT BY UNIT-OF-WORK-ID
    AND FOR SINGLE CMF RECORDS BY UNIT-OF-WORK-ID.
    BECAUSE THE REGIONS USE DLI, THREE OF THE CMF DLI USER CLOCKS
    ARE ALSO WRITTEN ON THE CROSS SYSTEM DATA SET.
    THE INPUT FILE IS A MERGED COPY OF THE CMF USER JOURNALS FOR
    A WEEK FOR TWO REGIONS.  THE INPUT FILE IS MADE UP OF 7 TAPES.
    WHEN THE CICSPARS JOB WAS CANCELLED, THE OUTPUT CROSS SYSTEM
    DATA SET WAS ALREADY 31 TAPE REELS.
    THE SAME DCB IS SPECIFIED FOR BOTH THE INPUT FILE AND THE
    OUTPUT CROSS SYSTEM DATA SET:
      RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=4096
  

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Problem summary

•   INDIVIDUAL RECORDS FOR THE CROSS SYSTEM DATA SET WILL BE
    SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE INPUT RECORDS BECAUSE OF THE
    FOUR ADDITIONAL USER FIELDS ADDED (AS DOCUMENTED IN THE
    CICSPARS GUIDE TO REPORTS, SH20-6810-1, PAGE 69), AND
    BECAUSE ONLY ONE CROSS SYSTEM RECORD IS WRITTEN PER BLOCK.
    THE PROBLEM HERE IS WITH USING RECFM=U FOR THE CROSS SYSTEM
    DATA SET.  WHEN RECFM=U IS SPECIFIED, THE ENTIRE BLOCK IS
    WRITTEN (IN THIS CASE 4096 BYTES).  THE ADDITIONAL AREA
    AFTER THE "LOGICAL" RECORD IS GARBAGE, BUT IT DOES TAKE UP
    SPACE.  IN ADDITION, USING A CROSS SYSTEM DATA SET WITH THE
    EXTRA GARBAGE AS INPUT TO CICSPARS REPORTS RESULTS IN
    MESSAGE ECP0318W - PADDED MONITOR RECORD ENCOUNTERED.
  

Problem conclusion

•   SPECIFY RECFM=VB FOR THE CROSS SYSTEM DATA SET, AS
    DOCUMENTED IN THE CICSPARS GUIDE TO REPORTS (SH20-6810-1)
    PAGE 66, AND AS SHOWN IN THE EXAMPLE IN FIGURE 1, PAGE 5.
  

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