Why some files are accepted with missing FCBs and others cause error ESF427?

Products

• Spool

Issue/Introduction

When submitting the following job:

             
//STEP1   EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,REGION=0M                            
//SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*                                          
//SYSOUT   DD  SYSOUT=*                                          
//SYSUT1   DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=input-file                   
//SYSUT2   DD  SYSOUT=A,DEST=prt0,FCB=FC01,CHARS=CC
//SYSIN    DD  DUMMY                                             

The following error message appears:

ESF427  FCB IMAGE FC01 NOT FOUND                                                                                                       

However, sending this same file to another node it is printed with no error messages

Environment

Release : 14.0

Component : CA Spool

Resolution

Two possible reasons:

1) The second NODE has the keywords FCB=existing-fcb,USEFCB=PRINTER 

2) The second NODE has the keyword TRANSFRM and the file is being transformed. 
Transformed files have assigned the FCB=ASIS so the original FCB is not used