A customer copied the valid contents of USERA’s message log file (i.e. SEREX006 defined HLQ.MSGS, LRECL=448, BLKSIZE=28224) to a dataset with LRECL=80, BLKSIZE=800 that matched the same naming convention for USERB. Every time that USERB subsequently attempted to connect to the ZMF Server started task the following abend was encountered within the started task:
With the introduction of SEREX006 , when a user is not logged onto ZMF, messages are written to the log dataset dynamically allocated by the exit. When the number of messages in the user’s log dataset get to a certain number, for example 50 messages, when they finally do log back on to ZMF they are ‘flooded’ with all the missed messages. If you look in the System Log you will see the following messages:
