INVALID EXTERNAL FILTER: value is too big (too long)

Products

• Vantage Storage Resource Manager

Issue/Introduction

During startup of Vantage I noticed the following messages

INVALID EXTERNAL FILTER: value is too big (too long)           
VAN0991I PoolDef Compile ExtFlt: value is too big (too long)  

Which Filter is in errror and how can this be corrected?

Environment

Release: SMV3EN00200-14.0-Graphical Management Interface
Component:

Resolution

At this time no message is issued in the JESMSGLG log to indentify the incorrect external Filter. Look at the MSGE log for message

GENUSR01 ..ExtFlt=POOLFLT1  for Obj=LSPACEPO compile failed PoolDef Compile ExtFlt: value is too big (too long)

which contains the Filter name ExtFlt=POOLFLT1. Preceding messages refer to the invalid statement. For example:

GENFLTCP 1st 50 bytes of -bad- filter string=('SMS STATUS' EQ DISABLE)

In this case the Value for 'SMS STATUS' is too long. This field is only 6 bytes and valid values are:

SMS Status                                                              
   DFSMS Status (NOTCON,ENABLE,QUIALL,...)                              
   ENABLE  The system or system group can allocate and access data      
           sets on this volume.                                         
                                                                        
   DISALL  The system or system group cannot allocate or access         
           data sets on this volume.                                    
                                                                        
   DISNEW  The system or system group cannot allocate new data sets     
           on this volumes.                                             
                                                                        
   NOTCON  The system or system group is physically disconnected        
           from this volume and cannot allocate or access data sets     
           on it.                                                       
                                                                        
   NRDY    Not Ready: The volume is not ready.                          
                                                                        
   QUIALL  If the system uses JES3, it cannot schedule jobs that        
           allocate or access data sets on this volume.  If the         
           system uses JES2, it uses this volume for new allocations    
           only if other volumes are not available.                     
                                                                        
   QUINEW  If the system uses JES3, it cannot schedule jobs that        
           allocate new data sets on this volume.  If the system        
           uses JES2, it uses this volume for new allocations only      
           if other volumes are not available.                         
 

Additional Information

NOTE: Use the "External Filter/Class Manager" from the Windows Client to create external Filters, as the
syntax is validated when the Filter is saved.