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satmaar Currently Banned New User
Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 16 Location: Bangalore
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Please explain the incomplete Spanned Records Creation in DFSORT while processing VBS Files?
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Satmaar |
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Frank Yaeger
DFSORT Developer
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 7129 Location: San Jose, CA
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DFSORT does NOT create incomplete spanned records. Other processes can create incomplete spanned records. DFSORT can eliminate the incomplete records with its SPANINC option. |
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satmaar Currently Banned New User
Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 16 Location: Bangalore
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Frank,
Thanks for your reply.Could you please let me know at what circumstances,Incomplete Spanned Records Create? |
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Frank Yaeger
DFSORT Developer
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 7129 Location: San Jose, CA
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It usually occurs when a program ABENDS in the middle of writing a spanned record. A spanned record has several parts, so if a program that's writing a spanned record ABENDs, it may only write some of the parts. For example, it could write a beginning segment and a middle segment, but not the ending segment. I don't know enough about it to tell you exactly which product this occurs for or how. |
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dick scherrer
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Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 19244 Location: Inside the Matrix
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Hello,
IMHO - it should not be an issue. When a process that is creating an output sequential file abends, this output file should be re-created from the beginning. Whan happened to original output dataset then no longer matters.
If for some reason a file is being MODded onto, a copy of it should be made before the step that specifies MOD and if an abend occurs, the copy should be used for the re-run and again, the output is created from the beginning of the problem run. |
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satmaar Currently Banned New User
Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 16 Location: Bangalore
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Hi Scherrer,
Recently i come across a typical SORT Error when a job trying to copy VBS file to VB File.The message indicates that 'INCOMPLETE SPANNED RECORD DETECTED'.Job ran fine after restart.So i would like to replicate the same error for my testing purpose.Can you help me,to create incomplete spanned records? |
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PeterHolland
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Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 2481 Location: Netherlands, Amstelveen
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Cancel the spanned records creating job ? |
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