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Error Messages

Message issued

Reason

BAD GROUP ELEMENT LENGTH

Error in Total DDL; the specified group-length must match the combined lengths of the individual items making up the group.

CARD BUFFER FULL (ETOTPARS)

More than 500 SYNONYM, AREA, SCHEMA, DEVICE-MEDIA, SUBSCHEMA, and USAGE-MODE statements; relink ETOTMAIN to include ETOTR002 (see Increasing Generator Input Limits).

IMPROPER ELEMENT NAME

Invalid Total DDL data name or keyword; entry must be *FILLER*, RECORD-CODE, or an 8-character data name.

IMPROPER FILE NAME

Invalid file name; entry must be four characters in length and alphanumeric.

IMPROPER INTEGER

Expecting an integer; entry is nonnumeric.

IMPROPER SYNONYM

Invalid or missing CA IDMS/DB element, record, or set name in SYNONYMS control statement; entry must be alphanumeric.

IMPROPER SYNONYM SOURCE

Invalid Total element or file name or transparency set name in SYNONYMS control statement; entry must be 4, 8, or 12 characters long.

IMPROPER SYNTAX

Invalid Total DDL syntax.

INVALID AREA NAME

Invalid or missing CA IDMS/DB area name in AREA or USAGE-MODE control statement; entry must be from 1 to 16 characters long and must be alphanumeric.

INVALID LOAD LRECL

Invalid logical record length in LRECL entry of LOAD control statement; entry must be greater than or equal to 1.

INVALID LOAD SYNTAX

Invalid LOAD statement syntax; entry following keyword LOAD must be ALL, ALL., or LRECL.

INVALID SUBSCHEMA NAME

Invalid or missing CA IDMS/DB subschema name in SUBSCHEMA NAME IS entry of SUBSCHEMA control statement; entry must be from 1 to 8 characters long.

INVALID TASK NAME

Invalid Total task name in USAGE-MODE control statement; entry must be 8 characters long and must be alphanumeric.

INVALID USAGE

Invalid CA IDMS/DB usage mode in USAGE-MODE control statement; entry must specify RETRIEVAL, UPDATE, SHARED RETRIEVAL, PROTECTED RETRIEVAL, EXCLUSIVE RETRIEVAL, SHARED UPDATE, PROTECTED UPDATE, or EXCLUSIVE UPDATE.

INVALID USE OF READY

A READY ALL USAGE-MODE control statement was detected after a READY area-name USAGE-MODE control statement had been found, or vice versa.

INVALID USE OF PGMNAME

A total-task-name USAGE-MODE control statement specifying an idms-area-name was detected after a total-task-name ALL statement had been found, or vice versa.

MISSING BEGIN-DATA-BASE-GENERATION

The beginning statement of the Total DDL file is missing.

SYMBOL-TABLE FULL

The number of files plus the number of elements in the entire DDL is greater than the table size allowed in the transparency.

UNDEFINED AREA

Unrecognized CA IDMS/DB area name in USAGE-MODE control statement; entry must be defined in SCHEMA control statement.

UNDEFINED ELEMENT

Unrecognized Total data-element name; entry must be defined in Total DDL.

UNDEFINED FILE

Unrecognized Total file name in Total DDL, SYNONYMS control statement, or AREA control statement. Any Total file name used as the first four characters of a Total file element name in Total DDL must also be defined in Total DDL; a Total file name used to qualify a Total element name in the SYNONYMS control statement must be defined in the Total DDL; a Total file name entered in the AREA control statement must be defined in the Total DDL.

UNDEFINED SET NAME

Unrecognized transparency set name in SYNONYMS control statement; entry must be the name of a CA IDMS/DB set established by the generator.