Re: CHGPF and "Pointer not set for location referenced." error

To help out Mike and others - when you press F1 on the message, that is not all you should do - once in the displayed message, press F9 to get the stuff Chuck is talking about - the from and to information, all that.

We run into the same thing all the time when supporting customers - they just give us a screen print of the job log - not much help there!

HTH
Vern

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From: CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>

Suggesting an error like msgMCH3601 occurs without any supporting
details has as much worth as asking why your car will not start without
any supporting details.

A /machine/ exception is always issued to a program [and module and
procedure], either from a LIC program or as part of an error within the
program itself. In the latter case, the names are manifest the same,
both as from\to, such that the /from/ information is omitted. In the
former case the error might be from program dbdoesstuff and to program
qdbchgfi module dostuff procedure doit. Only knowing the full context
of that information can any worthwhile comment be made about the error
that was received; i.e. what was all the _do_ stuff doing, as can be
inferred by the program, module, and procedure names. Additionally
anything specific about the database file network and attributes of the
PF [such as triggers, identity, blob, etc.] that might be unique for the
failing file as compared to other files that do not exhibit the same
failure would add supporting details which might help to identify either
a circumvention or the origin of the problem.

Aside from an error with the db file, the db cross reference, or the
dbf network, the MCH3601 in an IBM program is almost surely a defect
condition, or would be found to be a /problem with the file [network]/
when reported to your service provider. If not a defect, or if the
result of an old defect which is merely being manifest visibly in this
manner, the recovery is typically to delete and recreate the file, using
whatever method of data recovery is appropriate for the individual
situation.

Regards, Chuck

Mike Cunningham wrote:

I was doing some database work last night and ran CHGPF against 6 PFs
successfully but then I ran it on one file it was not happy and
issued a pair of "Pointer not set for location referenced." errors
(MCH3601), no other lower level errors. The CHGPF command failed on a
development version of this file and the production version. I
removed the new field I was adding from the source and got the same
error. Found a hit for PFT SI23243 which we already have applied and
SI31599 which we did not so I applied that and still got the error.
Has anyone seen this error before and have a workaround?

Running V5R4

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