Endevor getting errors "SMGR041E" "SMGR064E" "BASE FILE PREMATURE END-OF-FILE"

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

 Accessing Element getting error reading the BASE file. 

           15:43:18  C1G0202I  ACTION #1 / STMT #2
           15:43:18  C1G0203I     ADD      ELEMENT <element>
           15:43:18  C1G0205I        FROM DSNAME:  <level1>.<level2>.<cntl>
           15:43:18  C1G0204I        TO   ENVIRONMENT: ENV1      SYSTEM: SYS1     SUBSYSTEM: SUB1     TYPE: COBOL      STAGE ID: 1
           15:43:18  C1G0232I        OPTIONS:  OVERRIDE SIGNOUT, UPDATE
           15:43:18  C1G0232I                  CCID: MY CCID 
           15:43:18  C1G0232I                  COMMENT: This is my comment
           15:43:20  C1G0265I  PROCESSOR GROUP COBOL FOR THIS ELEMENT WAS OBTAINED FROM PRIMARY ELEMENT RECORD
           15:43:24  SMGR041E  BASE FILE PREMATURE END-OF-FILE
           15:43:24  SMGR041E  BASE FILE PREMATURE END-OF-FILE
           15:43:24  C1G0000I     DATA SET <level1>.<level2>.<base>
           15:43:24  C1G0000I     MEMBER <element>
           15:43:24  SMGR064E  READ I/O ERROR FROM READRUTN - DDN=SYS00011
           15:43:24  C1G0277I  UPDATE PROCESSING TERMINATED BECAUSE OF THE PREVIOUS ERROR
           15:43:24  C1G0200I  ELEMENT ACTION REQUEST PROCESSING COMPLETED, HIGHEST ENDEVOR RC WAS 0012

Environment

All supported releases

Resolution

The errors are issued because the BASE ELEMENT member is corrupted.  There are 2 options that can be used to restore the base member: 

Option 1:  Requires that the site has an UNLOAD/RELOAD/VALIDATE (PGM=C1BM5000) backup member. 

• Prior to doing anything take backups both Unload and backup the components. 
• Change the delete processor group's DELETE processor to *NOPROC*.  This will delete the element and not the components. 
• Then delete the element with the bad base member.  Expect a non-zero condition code.
• Then unload the system, this will restore only the Elements that are older than the backup.  This would be only the bad element. 
• Double check the output. 
• Change back the processor groups delete processor. 

Option 2:  Requires a full pack backup (like DFDSS) 

• Restore the base library to a temporary dataset name
• Examine the base member's footprint in the temporary file 
• Ensure that footprint of the member to be restored is the same as the base member 
• Copy the member to the base library  (Note - The base member must be an exact match)