Invalid line of X'00' in the output file

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Hi,
In my output file, there is one extra line is coming after every 100 records as X'00'. No records are missing from the output but this line is extra. My input file is a VB, LRECL=328,BLKSIZE=32800 and the output file is 320 length with FB format with BLKSIZE=32000.

We are converting from 328 to 320 because 324 is complete data where first 4 bytes are designed to keep the length and the next 320 bytes is the actual data.

In the code if I try to bypass the line of X'00' before writing to output file, it is not working.

Can you please help me to know what may be the cause for this issue. Let me know if any clarification needed.

Thanks.

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

And as I change the BLKSIZE, the position of the extra line also changes. Like LRECL=320 and if BLKSIZE=32000(100 multiple), the extra line comes after every 100 records. If BLKSIZE is 31680(multiple of 99), the extra line comes after every 99 record and so on.

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 5:21 pm

Which language? This is a mixed language forum for both PL/1 and assembler.

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:57 pm

Hello,

Is the x'00' record the first record in a block or the last record in a block or is it somewhere else?

How is the data being written?

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Hi Dick,
It seems the X'00' line is the end of the block as I said earlier that when the BLKSIZE=32000 and LRECL=320, it comes in every 100th record. As we change the BLKSIZE (multiple of 320), the line position varies accordingly.

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Hi Dick,
As of the existing code, the output is a VB file too. And the output is written in blocks with first 4 bytes as the blocksize(RDW). So, since the requirement is to make it as a FB file, I am bumping the first 4 bytes.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 11:57 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:06 am

Hello,

Your code should write logical records (not physical blocks). There would be no reason to be concerned about the RDW in the code.

Possibly there is something i misunderstand?

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 3:20 am

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:50 pm

DO NOT POST ATTACHMENTS,
not everybody can look at them

EVEN WORSE JPEGS
it' s a useless waste of disk space

a plain TEXT cut and paste and the code tags are more than enough!

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dick scherrer · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:50 pm

Hello,

Please use copy/paste and show a couple of examples of the input data records and what the output from that input should be.

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