Easytrieve Report generation error with new maintenance 21008

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

Reports generated have the word PAGE to the far right, leaving room for only one digit page number. The impact is that if the report has more than 9 pages, after PAGE 9, the next page displays PAGE 0 as it does not have room to display ‘10’. 

This changed with the new maintenance we have applied. We have a system running the previous version and do not get the error there.

 

Environment

Release : 11.6

Component : EASYTRIEVE REPORT GEN

Resolution

This issue is caused by a wrong value being picked for a newly introduced option PGNMDGTS from an older options file.

 

PGNMDGTS
Specifies the number of digits in the PAGE number.

Default: 5 (on z/OS)
5 digits use the mask ZZ,ZZ9
Default: 7 (on Unix, Linux, and Windows)
7 digits use the mask Z,ZZZ,ZZ9

This is a compile-time option.

The customer has an older options file from which PGNMDGTS picks a value 0 because this option was non-existent in the past and the respective field was initialized to a 0 in the old options file. This causes the truncation of the page numbers above a single digit.

Fix:

 

As an immediate solution for the customer, Creating a new options file will solve this problem as PGNMDGTS would be defaulted to 5.

Later, we will publish a PTF to resolve this issue being caused for old options files.

 

You could also run JOB06OP2, which has the following DD statement: for example
//OPTBLD.SYSIN   DD  *                                              
PGNMDGTS 5                                 

Additional Information

Client must be current on maintenance for the PGNMDGTS Options File parameter to be recognized. Without the needed PTF's,  recreating a new Options file or running JOB06OP2 will not add the default 5 value.