EZTC0128E >>> $ fieldname or literal expected

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

Encountering the following compiler error, what can help resolve this?

 

                      POINT vsam-file GE field-name-key STATUS

       EZTC0128E >>>                    $ fieldname or literal expected

 

Environment

CA Easytrieve Report Generator, release 11.6

Resolution

To resolve, please first confirm if the above field is defined.  In this example, field-name-key?

If not, please define it.  If you confirmed that the field is correctly defined within the CA Easytrieve source, please open a case with Support Online and include the following debugging parms:

Please after the //SYSIN DD statement in the JCL on the very first line of the CA Easytrieve source, include these parameters (three lines) on the PARM statement or to an existing PARM statement:
 
LIST ON MACROS
PARM DEBUG(PMAP DMAP STATE XREF LONG) ABEXIT NO SORT(MSG(ALL))+
LIST FILE

Please turn off the third party debugging utilities:

 //IDIOFF   DD  DUMMY   IBM FAULT ANALYZER OFF 
 //ABNLIGNR DD  DUMMY   ABEND-AID OFF               
 //ESPYIBM  DD  DUMMY   EYE-SPY OFF                 
 //CAOESTOP DD  DUMMY   CA-OPT II & CA-SYMDUMP OFF         
 //DMBENAN  DD  DUMMY   TURN OFF DUMPMASTER         
 //PSPOFF   DD  DUMMY   TURN OFF SOFTWORKS PERFORMANCE ESSENTIAL 

and please send the entire listing to us by attaching it to the newly opened case.