Librarian ERROR INVALID OPERAND IN -OPT STATEMENT. - ARC=999

Products

• Librarian

Issue/Introduction

When trying to create and initialize a wide record librarian file, the init fails and returns the following error:

 -OPT INIT,DISK,ARC=999,COMPRESS=NONE

 *** ERROR ***          INVALID OPERAND IN -OPT STATEMENT. - ARC=999

Environment

Release : 4.4

Resolution

Activate the started task LAMSERV.
See "Traditional and Wide Record Formats for Master Files"