Sletten Kenneth W KPWA wrote:
>
> About 10 hours ago Leonard asked:
> ==============================================
> Filename: ATOINPUT
>  File status is 9i
>  I/O ERROR on READ [30,9x] (COBERR 664)
>  Program file: ATO150CO.PHCPROG.AMISYS
>  BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE  (FSERR 105)
>
> ATOINPUT is a message file (MSG).
> ===============================================
>
> We just had the same thing happen on two message files
> after our Helpdesk "inadvertently" did a hard shut down
> on the UPS that powers our 959-400 (grrrrrr...).  Maybe
> somebody else has a way to do it, but I've always ended
> up resorting to the PURGE and re-BUILD routine to be sure
> the problem has gone away...

If you are processing the file, you will get "some" records up to the
time of the crash; but beyond that, yes, I agree with Ken that the only
way to make it go away is to purge/rebuild.  You can get some further
reliability (at the cost of performance) by using FCONTROL to force
posting of the file EOF in the writer application(s).

Jeff

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