Endevor Generate getting C1A0010E ALLOCATION ERROR RC=035C-0002,

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

Modified a processor with a symbolic &CMPSYSIN.

Had no issues when specifying just the DSName -

  //         CMPSYSIN='iprfx.xx.xxxx.VPS#00.CBL',

Changed  &CMPSYSIN  to  DSName(member) and now get the  C1A0010E  error :

Changed processor code lines:

               //         CMPSYSIN='iprfx.xx.xxx.VPS#00.CBL(xxxxxx)',
                   …

               //SYSIN    DD DSN=&CMPSYSIN,
               //            DISP=SHR

 

C1MSGS1 output:

        C1G0009I      ORIGINAL    : &CMPSYSIN                    
        C1G0009I      SUBSTITUTED : iprfx.xx.xxx.VPS#00.CBL(xxxxxx)       
            …
        C1X0010I  STEP TESTSRCE PROGRAM IRXJCL COMPLETED, RC=0000            
        C1A0010E  ALLOCATION ERROR RC=035C-0002, DDNAME=SYSIN                
        C1A0011E  IKJ56231I FILE SYSIN NOT ALLOCATED, SYSTEM OR INSTALLATION E
        C1A0012E  IKJ56231I TEXT UNIT X'0002' CONTAINS INVALID PARAMETER     
        C1G0000I     ELEMENT xxxxxx                                           

Results:  Program generate fails with RC=0016

Environment

All Supported Releases

Resolution

This is expected and documented behavior. 

When using a symbolic for a data name, cannot include the member name as part of symbolic. Must use 2 symbolics.

See  Symbolic Parameters:

• When using a symbol for a data set, do not include the member name as part of the symbol or you get an allocation error. Use two symbols, for example:

//SYSLIB DD DSN=&LIB1(&C1ELEMENT)

Additional Information

NOTE: There are scenarios where there are no symbolics being used for the dataset naming convention. Other items to check for TEXT UNIT X'0002' is whether the physical dataset exists (could be defined via symbolic override) or check in the symbolic override screen to ensure there are no random (possibly invisible) characters at the end of the dataset name.