Message stating I need to run the software inventory with the parameter specified, 'INVENTORY=ALL'

Products

• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER

Issue/Introduction

 Using Create Service Order received Message stating I need to run the software inventory with the parameter specified, 'INVENTORY=ALL'.

After running the GIMXSID job to create software inventory data I used the following “Receive File From Host”

function under the Actions tab in PCOMM, the emulator we use for terminal sessions.

 

What I discovered however is that the file transfer was adding a character at the end of the file. When I uploaded the downloaded file to Broadcom to create a service order, the process failed when it attempted to read the inventory file. I had to edit the file and delete the [] character the transfer added at the end of the file before uploading it to Broadcom. Once I did that I was able to Create Service Order without an issue. Also transferring the file from the mainframe to the PC as binary will cause this Invalid inventory file format failure.

 

Environment

Release : 6.0

Cause

The cause is a rectangle symbol at the end of the report:

<id>XC90081</id>
<id>YC90081</id>
</ptfList>
</gimxsidSwInventory>

[]

This is known to be caused by command :

This was recreated it with the IND$FILE GET 'HLQ.GIMXSID.OUTPUT' ASCII CRLF:

Invalid inventory file format. Please update your GIMXSID JCL to include PARM='INVENTORY=ALL' on the exec statement

 

 

 

End of file before transfer from mainframe to PC:

000887 <id>T7M8692</id>
000888 <id>T7M8694</id>
000889 <id>T7M8695</id>
000890 <id>ZXE6108</id>
000891 </ptfList>
000892 </gimxsidSwInventory>
        ========================

End of file: after transfer to PC:

<id>T7M8695</id>
<id>ZXE6108</id>
</ptfList>
</gimxsidSwInventory>

 

Removing the CLRF is also an option to avoid this.


Resolution

To correct this erase the [] symbol and retry and if the file was not FTP'ed or transferred to the PC as ascii please re-FTP or transfer the file as ascii because it an XML text file.