Re: CPE3460 with XML-INTO over empty file

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henrik

It is put into the IFS by a process on a Windows box, related to an 
accounts receivable application - the Windows box is internal to our 
network. It might be a scheduled job on that box or it might be 
scheduled using UC4.

It was decided that this XML file would be sent, even if there is no 
information to send. But I had thought there would at least be XML 
header - never tested it with absolutely 0 bytes in the file!

I have to say that I think that AR app is rather stupid - for many 
reasons - and getting that to change is something the project leaders 
decided not to pursue, as it just wouldn't happen. Since when does a 
company let a software package decide what information you can pass back 
and forth? What your business requirements can be? Should not your 
data/business needs have precedence? Sigh!

Vern

On 3/4/2014 7:00 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:
> Vernon
>
> how did you recieve the file ?
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > We are using XML-INTO to process a file from an external source.
> >
> > This morning, the XML file was completely empty - no XML header, no
> > DOCTYPE, nada, zip, nullo, etc.
> >
> > We got a CPE3460 "Storage allocation request failed." message.
> >
> > Is it trying to allocate 0 bytes?  :) Is this expected behavior?
> >
> > I did see a couple hits in Google about this message and XML-INTO for
> > v5r4 and 6.1 - we are on 7.1 and pretty current.
> >
> > I can live with it, am using a monitor around the XML-INTO section.
> > There are ON-ERROR sections for status 351, 352, 353, and 354 - this one
> > had status of 9999.
> >
> > Regards
> > Vern
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