Re: ICF program bombs with 3401

[G Armour <garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx>]

First of all, thanks to all for the ICF PDF references.  I found it under
the supplemental manuals part of the InfoCenter.

In response to Rick, who replied privately:

    In my experience - which is somewhat aged - The error 
    message CPF4768 means that your icf file does not have 
    sufficient record length to accept the date the other 
    system is sending...

    Is this a new process?  Has it been running and just quit?

Thanks Rick.  We've been running similar processes for years with many
clients.  This particular client changed banks, and we were told to expect
a record length of 80, instead of 256, which is what all of our other
clients' banks use.  None of us are comm wizzes here, as these
applications were written several years ago by someone who is no longer
here.

So, my next step is to try going back to 256 and see where that takes us.

The other thing I've been told to take note of, but no one seems to know
how important it is (if at all), is that we are communicating to a
"software front-end" on the bank's side, as opposed to a "direct connect"
like we normally do.

Please consider my call for help still standing.

TIA, GA

--- G Armour <garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Esteemed listers,
> 
> I was charged with the task of solving some problems with an ICF
> program.  Having never worked with ICF before, I would appreciate 
> some assistance to TFM's, as appropos.  I tried searching the 
> archives, but they appear to be unavailable at the moment (DNS 
> error).
> 
> It appears that the RPG program is successfully transmitting a header
> record to the remote system, which is supposed to use this info as an
> authentication and signals it to start sending data back to us. 
> However, when our program does a "read" on the ICF file, we are 
> getting a major/minor code of 3401.  The description I found for 
> major 34 is not helpful: "An input exception occurred.  The data 
> length or record format was not acceptable for the program."  A clue 
> may be in the job log; CPF4768 says "Input length specified for file 
> MMICFF in library MMTCUST smaller than actual length."  This was 
> followed by RPG9001: "Error RPG1201 caused program MR010 to stop."
> 
> Any help with deciphering this would be most appreciated!
> 
> TIA, GA

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