Re: CPA4072 - Maximum records for spooled file

Bryan,

I got burnt by *NOMAX a long time ago.  It was on a weekend and someone
managed to launch a job that produced a report with so many pages that
all of the available space on the system was used.  When the operating
system ran out of space it sent a message to the operator's message
queue asking for help and then sat there doing nothing.  Killing the job
and deleting the huge spool file allowed the system to get healthy
again.

This was on an early model AS400 with limited file space.

Greg

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Subject: [MAPICS-L] CPA4072 - Maximum records for spooled file

Do you change MAPICS report overrides for MAXRCDS?  If so, which ones
and to
what? We didn't get a backup last night because a user submitted an Item
Balance File List at 10:30 PM and it went into message wait due to
CPA4072 -
Maximum number of records reached for file AMI2TRP. It was set at
100,000.
 
Investigation revealed that even if set to 999,999, AMI2TRP will bomb
with
CPA4072 at about 22,000 pages.  I changed it to *NOMAX and the report
completed normally at 44,000 pages.
 
Surely, some of  have run into this before and I'd like to know how you
approached it.
 
Thanks,
 
Bryan Burns 
ECHO, Inc. 
Lake Zurich, Illinois 
bryan_burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 
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