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filewatch job failed with return code 4 randomly

Troubleshooting


Problem

The filewatch program that is to check if the file exists or not sometime fail with rc 4 even though the file does not exists. Issue happens intermittently. 

Symptom

zCentric job that was run
//JOBREC 
JOBCMD(SCRIPT) 
JOBUSR(xxxx) 
WRKDIR(/TWS/bin/) 
//END JOBREC 
ls -al /in/ 
./filewatch -c wdl -f /in/return.dat -dea 1 -trace 3 

 
Output of ‘ls -al /in/ ‘ command
/* */ 
total 49468 
drwxrws---. 2 prdadm sapsys 52 Apr 14 11:45 . 
drwxrwxrwt. 15 prdadm sapsys 261 Apr 1 19:23 .. 
-rw-rw----. 1 prdadm sapsys 10516479 Apr 14 01:36 fmsd020.tmp 
-rw-rw----. 1 prdadm sapsys 40134639 Apr 14 06:30 fmsd028.tmp 
Output from filewatch command
filewatch installation directory = /TWS/ 
IBM Workload Automation(UNIX)/FWATCH (20220317) 
Licensed Materials - Property of IBM* and HCL** 
5698-WSH 
(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1998, 2016 All rights reserved. 
(C) Copyright HCL Technologies Ltd. 2016, 2022 All rights reserved. 
* Trademark of International Business Machines 
** Trademark of HCL Technologies Limited 
Program code level: 20220317 
Installed for user "xxxxx". 
Locale LANG set to the following: "en" 
MSG: Action is: (4) 
MSG: Keyword:(?) Value((null)) 
MSG: Keyword:(CONDITION) Value(wdl) 
MSG: Keyword:(FILENAME) Value(/in/return.dat) 
MSG: Keyword:(DATABASE) Value() 
MSG: Keyword:(INTERVAL) Value(60) 
MSG: Keyword:(DEADLINE) Value(1) 
MSG: Keyword:(RETURNCODE) Value(4) 
MSG: Keyword:(TRACE) Value(3) 
MSG: final values: 
MSG: filename is: (/in/return.dat) 
MSG: database is: (filewatchdb) 
MSG: interval is: (60) 
MSG: deadline is: (1) 
MSG: return code is: (4) 
MSG: trace level is: (3) 
MSG: database used is: filewatchdb 
MSG: waiting for deleting of file: /in/return.dat 
************************************************************************** 
MSG: waitFileDeleted 
MSG: started at: Fri Apr 14 22:01:10 2023 
MSG: ended at: Fri Apr 14 22:01:11 2023 
MSG: elapsed time: 1 seconds 
MSG: deadline reached 
MSG: filewatch is exiting with return code 4 
************************************************************************** 
 

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Modified date:
29 May 2023

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