Create header/trailer for empty file

sivasaras · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 93 Location: chenna/i-

Hi,

The job which is abending daily due to the file which is not having the trailer record or header record in the file.

Iam getting 46 different files like these but only 2 files which are getting abended with missing header records.

i need to fix this abend via job or through program.

my thinking is the file don't have trailer or header mark it as empty and process in the job with empty files.

kindly guide me how can i fix this issue through jcl.

Thanks
Siva

Akatsukami · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:24 pm

Meaningless and misleading title for a garbage post. After nearly five years you should know better.

Title tweaked.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:27 pm

If a job is abending because there is no header or no trailer on a file, the best thing to do is find the bug which is causing that to happen and fix it.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:32 pm

Hello,

Someone needs to correct the files before they are "sent" to your process.

There is no way this should have gone into production until the file creation was correct for all of the "senders".

Why do you believe this is either a sort or JCL problem. . . It is neither.

Why is there an abend? The code should be able to detect invalid files/data and deal with it.

sivasaras · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 93 Location: chenna/i-

Here the problem is the data which is receiving in this file is through FTP.
if the ftp connection failed it is not loaded with trailer.

So when the job start running say tommorow it is getting abended.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:41 pm

You mean if the FTP fails you have a partial file, or that you run with an empty file?

If you need an "empty" file, you need something which is run specifically only when the transfer fails.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:43 pm

Hello,

Then someone needs to stabilize your environment. We do several hundred ftp processes (both send and receive) every day and do not have ftp connecton failures. . .

sivasaras · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 93 Location: chenna/i-

we will be receiving the partial file only and because of this the job got abended without processing the remaining files.

so i thought if a file has missing trailer or header record i will empty the records and process as a empty file for today run.

so next day the missed data wil be processed.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:57 pm

So, whilst trying to get the FTP more stable, you need a job which only runs when the FTP fails, and which puts header/trailer indicating "empty" file.

What do your header and trailers look like? What are the sources of the data on the header trailer?

Which sort product do you use?

sivasaras · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 93 Location: chenna/i-

The below is the sample format of the file.

HEADER20120717'Accout number file'
A34524678
TRAILER20120717

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:18 pm

What is the source of the date?

Is the text really mixed-case?

Not even a count on the trailer?

sivasaras · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 93 Location: chenna/i-

Yes the text is mixed case only.

HEADER20120717'Accout number file'
A34524678
TRAILER2012071700003

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:36 pm

And the source of the date, at least?

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:57 pm

knickraj · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Euro

Using icetool...May be as a fix you may add a new step in the abending jcl to detect missing header/trailer a step as below, it would return RC12 for missing
header/trailer and you may use this rc to handle your abend : skip the abending step or write missing header or trailer etc...

Bill Woodger · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:56 pm

knickraj,

TS already knows when they have an incomplete file (FTP failure) so this is not necessary.

knickraj · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Euro

bill,

just assuming, if the sender of the file has not put header/ trailer ,FTP works OK, as code does not handle file without header/trailer.

knickraj · New User Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Euro

also this one can be tried

Peter Nancollis · New User Joined: 15 Mar 2011 Posts: 47 Location: UK

Sorry to be late on this - and maybe a bit dim but...
If the proggie expects a header and a trailer and if they arent there or are incorrect [rec counts , hash etc. ] it's 0A0D ..isnt that working as [well] designed ?
If either are missing or wrong surely it's courageous to continue?
Processing an empty file to keep the schedule running *may* be an acceptable option but isnt a wider view of the system necessary to say if this is valid reason to force jobs through?
For me if the designer was concerned enough to think there was a need for Header/Trailers ... there was probably also a need to not process incomplete files and/or a dependency on update sequence .... but without knowing my guess is as good/bad as everyone elses
[a good/complete ftp doesnt necessarily mean everything that should have been sent has been - ie the remote file building process may have failed or been forced - Hs & Ts do !]

sivasaras · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 93 Location: chenna/i-

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies.