Endevor Problem with variable blocked datasets C1G0296W issued

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

C1G0296W  THE OUTPUT DATASET LRECL OF (31996), IS LESS THAN THE TYPE DEFINITION OF (32000). 

Failing Endevor Processor step is:  

//CONWRITE  EXEC PGM=CONWRITE,PARM='EXPINCL(N)',MAXRC=0  
//ELMOUT    DD DSN=&HTMLLIB(&C1ELEMENT),DISP=SHR,        
//              MONITOR=&MONITOR,FOOTPRNT=CREATE         
 
With HTMLLIB='ZX.PROD.DLOP.HTML'

The Endevor Type is defined as follows:

DESCRIPTION:  ===> HTML DOCUMENTS 
UPDATED:           11JAN18 11:35 BY xxxx
             -----------------  ELEMENT OPTIONS  -------------------  
DELTA FORMAT(F/R/I/L) ===> R  SOURCE LEN   ===> 32000  ELE RECFM(N/F/V) ===> V
COMPRESS/ENCRYPT(Y/N) ===> Y  COMPARE FROM ===> 1      DFLT PROC  ===> HTML   
AUTO CONSOL (Y/N)     ===> Y  COMPARE TO   ===> 32000  LANGUAGE   ===> DATA   
CONSOL AT LVL  ===> 20        REGRESSION   ===> 75     PV/LB LANG ===> DATA  
LVLS TO CONSOL ===> 18        REG SEV(I/W/C/E)  ===> W DATA FORMAT(T/B) ===> T
USS RECFM(COMP/CR/CRLF/CRNL/F/LF/NL/V)     ===> NL     FILE EXT   ===>        
         -----------------  COMPONENT LIST OPTIONS  ------------------        
FWD/REV DELTA(F/R)    ===> R  AUTO CONSOL (Y/N)      Y CONSOL AT LVL       96 
                                                       LVLS TO CONSOL      25 
         -------------------------  LIBRARIES  -----------------------        
  BASE/IMAGE LIBRARY ===> ZFLV.&C1STAGE..&C1SYSTEM..BASE                    
  DELTA LIBRARY      ===> ZFLV.&C1STAGE..&C1SYSTEM..DELTA                     
  INCLUDE LIBRARY    ===>                                                     
  SOURCE O/P LIBRARY ===>                                                     
     EXPAND INCLUDES(Y/N)  ===> N        

Environment

Release : 18.1

Component : CA Endevor Software Change Manager

Resolution

The message C1G0296W is expected.  For all datasets with RECFM=V or VB, the LRECL attribute is 4 bytes larger that the maximum record length that can be written to the file.

The message C1G0296W is misleading. 

C1G0296W  THE OUTPUT DATASET LRECL OF (31992) IS LESS THAN THE TYPE DEFINITION.

It should say 'record length' instead of LRECL. 

C1G0296W  THE OUTPUT DATASET RECORD LENGTH OF (31992) IS LESS THAN THE TYPE DEFINITION. 

IBM wants a RDW (Record Descriptor Word) of 4 bytes for all records that have VB. That means the LRECL has to be 4 bytes larger then the actual record length. Also the BLKSIZE has to be LRECL + 4 bytes as well when dataset is VB.