To clear errors "Invalid record header" in the ESP Sanity Report

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

The Encore Sanity report shows the errors below,

***     Job TEST   (Jxxxxxxx) has an invalid record header in slot number 999999
 CYB633E Invalid record header encountered, Slot 999999
 *** ERROR 24 while Reading record 999999***
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 EXECUTION HISTORY FILE ERROR SUMMARY:
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         Number of lost slots:                               480   (Cond Code 0004)
         Number of incorrect index pointers:            0   (Cond Code 0008)
         Number of bad file record headers:          53   (Cond Code 0012)
         Number of broken-record-queue errors:     2   (Cond Code 0048)

Environment

Component: ESP Workload Automation
Release:   12

Resolution

To clear the "broken-record-queue errors", run the utility CYBRMPRG with JOB=jobname.

The "bad file record headers" errors should disappear after the next CYBRMPRG run.

To remove the lost slots, follow the instructions from  CYBRMPRG - Batch Purge EXH

CYBRMSAN can remove lost slots from the EXH data set. The utility must have exclusive write access to the EXH data set to repair it.

The following procedure shows  how to remove lost slots:

1. Issue the ENCPARM QUIESCE command on all subsystems using the EXH data set. 
2. In the EXH DD statement of the utility JCL, change DISP=SHR to DISP=OLD.
3. Run the CYBRMSAN utility.
4. Issue the ENCPARM RESTART command on all subsystems using the EXH data set.