How to resolve the following error: +EZGO0006 CA-EASYTRIEVE UNABLE TO OPEN (EMPTY) SYSLIN FILE.

Products

• PanAudit Plus
• Easytrieve Report Generator
• PAN/SQL

Issue/Introduction

When running the JOB06OP1 job for the CA Easytrieve release 11.6 installation, I receive the following error:

 +EZGO0006 CA-EASYTRIEVE UNABLE TO OPEN (EMPTY) SYSLIN FILE.

Is the //SYSLIN DD statement needed or is it necessary to remove the //SYSLIN DD DUMMY statement from the JOB06OP1 job?

Environment

Release: EDBMSU00200-11.6-Easytrieve-Report Generator-Option for DB2-MSU
Component:

Resolution

Please do remove the unneeded //SYSLIN DD DUMMY statement, and I believe we will then see that the program runs successfully for you.  

Additional Information

This was changed in a prior PTF for actually release 11.0 SP3, but release 11.6 acts the same way as designed. RO03555 has the following problem description: 

When a client tested one of their Easytrieve programs under 11.0 SP3 (and 11.6), if SYSLIN DD DUMMY was coded, a S0C4 abend was issued in EZTGO at +2AA or +2AE. 

The fix issues the following new message, and the condition code is set to 0016: 

+EZGO0006 CA-EASYTRIEVE UNABLE TO OPEN (EMPTY) SYSLIN FILE. 

So, the above PTF resolved a S0C4 abend and now generates the +EZGO0006 message. 

Removing the unnecessary //SYSLIN DD DUMMY statement allows JOB06OP1 to run to completion successfully.