Re: BRMS save failed and ended with a MCH3601

Not sure this is directly related here but MCH3601 in my experience is often caused by passing incorrect or mis-aligned data to and from programs. One example would be passing in a 30 byte string to a program expecting a 50 byte string. Or as I had last evening calling an API that has an error code return area but I neglected to initialize the field that indicated how many error bytes I expected the API to return. Given it was not initialized when no tapes were returned (an empty list). The API then attempted to hand me a CPFabcd telling me the list was empty however instead it threw an MCH3601 which came back to my program.

This is a long way of saying 'It's likely in the BRMS code'. Although is it possible there are no tapes available in the library for BRMS to use causing exactly the same issue I ran splat into last night?


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On 4/8/2017 11:43 AM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

BRMS save failed and ended with multiple MCH3601, followed by a CPF3799.
Third backup item of save, *ALLUSR, appears doing the checkpoint processing for library QUSRSYS.
I've never seen this type of error.
Any thoughts from the group.

MCH3601 Escape 40 04/07/17 22:08:49.663807 < ckSpaceLoc 0000D4 QSPSAVQ QSYS 0612
From Program . . . . . . . : RmslUnlockSpaceLoc
Message . . . . : Pointer not set for location referenced.
Cause . . . . . : A pointer was used, either directly or as a basing
pointer, that has not been set to an address.


CPF3799 Escape 30 04/07/17 22:08:58.381658 QSPSAVQ QSYS 08D1 QSRCLNUP QSYS 02BB
Message . . . . : Errors occurred. Object not processed.
Cause . . . . . : This message used internally only by save or restore to
signal error between modules. Escape 30 04/07/17 22:08:58.381658 QSPSAVQ QSYS 08D1 QSRCLNUP QSYS 02BB
Message . . . . : Errors occurred. Object not processed.
Cause . . . . . : This message used internally only by save or restore to
signal error between modules.

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