PM92871: Z/OS FTP CLIENT FAILS WITH EZA2825E EVEN WITH WRAPRECORD ENABLED FOR EBCDIC FILE TRANSFER FROM NON-Z/OS FTP SERVER OR FROM HFS

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• A FTP server (on non-z/OS platform or z/OS platform with source
  file on HFS) supports the TYPE E command for a EBCDIC file
  transfer.
  
  A z/OS FTP client has specified the following commands before
  doing a GET for a large file as a long record in stream mode
  with no newline (NL) for end-of-line record delimiters into a
  MVS data set:
  
    LOCSITE LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=xx RECFM=FM
    LOCSITE WRAP
    TYPE E
  
    where xx can be zero or non-zero for blocksize.
  
  The file transfer failed with the following error message
  issued by the z/OS FTP client because no record delimiters
  were found at all throughout the wrapped records:
  
    EZA2825E File contains records that are too long to be
             processed
  
  Depending on the LRECL and BLKSIZE values used, certain
  files (typically small ones) might work without incident.
  
  Because the z/OS FTP client has specified the DCB attributes
  for a MVS data set using a LOCSITE command for LRECL, BLKSIZE,
  and RECFM as well as a LOCSITE command for WRAPRECORD, the
  z/OS FTP client was transferring the file using the record
  wraps while checking for the record delimiters. With the
  WRAPRECORD support added to z/OS CS FTP client for EBCDIC file
  transfers, it was not necessary to terminate with an error when
  processing the last record with no record delimiter at all. If
  WRAPRECORD had not been supported for the EBCDIC file transfers,
  then the record delimiters would have been expected and the
  appropriate error message would have been issed if there were
  no record delimiters found.
  

Local fix

• Replace the "LOCSITE WRAP" and "TYPE E" commands with
  "BIN" and "QUOTE TYPE E" commands respectively.
  
  This will tell the FTP server to translate the long record
  into EBCDIC and transfer the record as binary. The z/OS FTP
  client will receive the EBCDIC characters as binary into a
  MVS data set with the specified LRECL, BLKSIZE, and RECFM for
  the DCB attributes.
  
  KEYWORDS:
  EZA2825E EZAFTPTI RECORD DELIMITER WRAPRECORD WRAP
  LOCSITE EBCDIC BINARY BIN ASCII NEWLINE NL
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All users of the IBM Communications Server for z/OS version  *
  * 2 release 1                                                  *
  * IP: FTP                                                      *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * Record too long error happens for                            *
  * TYPE E transfer of a long file which                         *
  * has no end-of-record character or                            *
  * has a long record length from remote                         *
  * FTP server to z/OS FTP client even                           *
  * when WRAPRECORD is enabled.                                  *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * Apply PTF.                                                   *
  ****************************************************************
  When using TYPE E transfer to get a file from the remote FTP
  server to the local z/OS FTP client, if the file is very long
  and contains no end-of-record character or the file contains
  the end-of-record character but the record is very long, even
  WRAPRECORD is enabled in the z/OS FTP client, the following
  error occured and the transfer failed:
  EZA2825E File contains records that are too long to be processed
  

Problem conclusion

• The problem has been fixed in z/OS FTP client and server.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

  PM88692

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UK96287

Modules/Macros

• EZAFTPTI
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TCP/IP V3 MVS

• Fixed component ID

  5655HAL00

Applicable component levels

• R210 PSY UK96287

     UP13/08/16 P F308

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