EZAC0000 EASYTRIEVE system error EVF9 has been encountered

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

+EZAC0000 CA-EASYTRIEVE system error EVF9 has been encountered                  
+EZAC0001 Program execution cancelled                                           
IEF450I - ABEND=S000 U0020 REASON=C5E5C6F9  396         
                                                             

Environment

Easytrieve Report Generator, release 11.6.

Resolution

EVF9 is an abend generated by the virtual file manager (ETVFMP, ETVDSMP, ETVBMP) and it means: "Leading and trailing record lengths are not equal".

This was found to be a problem with the data in this case.  The lines of data in error were deleted and the problem resolved.

If this is a problem with the amount of data, the recommendation then is to use PARM WORKFILE(YES) in order to use report work files instead of the VFM files.