ICE218A

Explanation
Critical. A variable-length record was shorter
than 4 bytes, or was too short to contain all specified fields. The
values shown in the message are as follows: n is the length of the variable-length record
m is 4 or the minimum length needed for all
fields specified
if ddname is blank, the short record was detected
during non-OUTFIL processing. Otherwise, the first data set in the
OUTFIL group for which the short record was detected is indicated
by ddname.

System action
The program terminates.

Programmer response
If a variable-length record was too short
to contain all INREC, OUTREC, or OUTFIL fields, use an INREC or OUTREC
statement with operands OVERLAY or IFTHEN as appropriate, or an OUTFIL
statement with operands OVERLAY, IFTHEN, or BUILD and VLFILL=C 'x'
or VLFILL=X 'yy' as appropriate, to prevent DFSORT from terminating.
If
the variable-length record was too short to contain all SORT, MERGE,
or SUM fields, use the VLSHRT option to prevent DFSORT from terminating.
If
a variable-length record was too short to contain all INCLUDE or OMIT
fields, use the VLSCMP or VLSHRT option to prevent DFSORT from terminating.
This message can be issued in the JOINKEYS F1 or F2
subtask for an INCLUDE or OMIT statement specified in JNFnCNTL or
for an INCLUDE or OMIT operand specified on a JOINKEYS statement.
 An INCLUDE or OMIT statement specified in JNFnCNTL will be displayed
in the subtask. An INCLUDE or OMIT operand specified on a JOINKEYS
statement will be displayed in the main task. If you specify an INCLUDE
or OMIT statement in JNFnCNTL, you can also specify VLSCMP in JNFnCNTL
if appropriate. If you specify an INCLUDE or OMIT operand on the JOINKEYS
statement, you can specify VLSCMP in DFSPARM if appropriate. 
See
the Programmer Response for message ICE015A for additional information.