Critical. The PARSE operand of an INREC, OUTREC or OUTFIL statement contained an invalid or incorrect definition for a parsed field. One of the following errors was found:

• More than 3 digits was specified for a parsed field definition (for example, %0001 instead of %1, %01 or %001). A parsed field must start with % and must have 1 digit, 2 digits, 3 digits or no digits.
• FIXLEN was not specified for %nnn, %nn or %n.
• FIXLEN, ABSPOS, ADDPOS, SUBPOS, REPEAT or PAIR was specified more than once.
• ABSPOS and ADDPOS, ABSPOS and SUBPOS, or ADDPOS and SUBPOS were specified.
• FIXLEN, ABSPOS, ADDPOS or SUBPOS was specified with a value of 0 or a value greater than 32752.
• REPEAT was specified with a value less than 2 or greater than 1000.
• The definition for %nnn included a REPEAT value which would result in a parsed field higher than %999 (for example, %998=(REPEAT=3,...)).
• A null string was used.
• A character or hexadecimal constant was longer than 256 bytes.
• An invalid digit or an odd number of digits was specified for a hexadecimal string.
• An invalid keyword was specified.