Random read error when file is read

JAYADEV.G · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: hyderabad

Hi Folks,

Can someone help me out in solving the issue.

I am encountering following problem when a job is ran.

"A2ED REQ=13 STA=23 RC=080006 LOC=R1ED MSG=SHRTMSG - READ ERROR - A2ED
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO RANDOMLY ACCESS A RECORD
THAT DOES NOT EXIST."

My findings are
1)I checked out the file if any records are missing by putting display.
But could not find any missing record.

....thanks
2)When the job is restarted it went fine.

what might be the reason for such scenario.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:18 pm

do not pester people by double posting,

replying is on voluntary basis and KNOWLEDGE
if You did not get any replies, maybe nobody knows

Your other post has been deleted

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:10 pm

or possibly a little more information describing the environment, etc...

JAYADEV.G · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: hyderabad

Environment is Production environment.

what exactly is happening is during Batch run,

My program is reading several files and writing one output file.

But while reading one of particular file it gives the above mentioned error.
and my job is failing.

and when i restart the job, it is going fine.

if further details are required please do ask.

...thnx

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:32 pm

By environment i meant: MVS/VM - OS390/z/os ???

the error message is new to me. In fact, I can not find it in the IBM library.

what kind of cobol is this? are there other error messages produced that we might recognize?

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:03 pm

Is the file used by another process (CICS, for example)? Can you run with DISP=OLD on the file?

Shashank.kapoor · New User Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 24 Location: Mumbai

Hi Jayadev,

Could you please provide us the details of the file and record on which job is abending.
Just Curious:
1) It is abending on the same record or position every time?
2) Type of file i.e. KSDS or RRDS, Its organisation and access mode.
3) How you are fetching the record.

This is strange to see that once you restart the job, it goes fine with the same record. Trying to figure out the error code you have mentioned in your post.
Do you have an ABENDAID. If yes, then is it possible for you to provide us the details of the record from it.

Thanks & Regards,
Shashank Kapoor

JAYADEV.G · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: hyderabad

hi shashank

From abend-aid i could not get record details.

but,

1)File type is KSDS.
2)Access mode is Random read.

...thnx

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:28 pm

Hello,

Is this batch or online?

Which versioh of which cobol compiler is being used (the compiler will show the version in the compiled output)?

Which version of which operating system is being used?

Terry Heinze · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:25 am

The error message you posted appears to be generated from the program. The "STA=23" looks like a file status but not one that the system would generate. I'd add a display of the key that you attempted to read when encountering any non-zero file status. Are you checking the file status of every I/O against this KSDS file?

JAYADEV.G · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: hyderabad

Folks,

I found out the reason for the abend.

Actually, during the execution of above abended job, another job was running in parallel which was updating the records for the same file.

When the abended job was trying to fetch for the record from file it could not find that record because parallel job did not update that particular record in the file at that instance.

This is a Batch process.

....thnx for your support

dick scherrer · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:16 pm

Good to hear it is working - thank you for letting us know

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