Dictionary/3000 Reference Manual (32244-90001)

Appendix B 297
UTILITY Error Messages
DICTCDE Messages
Warnings
MESSAGE EXPLANATION AND/OR ACTION
*WARNING: FILE ! DOES NOT HAVE
PARENT !
The user has specified a file name in the format
'child(parent)', and the child does not have the
'parent' specified.
*WARNING: ! CANNOT HAVE A PARENT;
IGNORING PARENT
The user has specified a file name in the format
'child(parent)' and the file cannot have a parent,
i.e., file types BASE, VPLUS, MPEF, MPER or
KSAM.
*WARNING: PARENT FILE IS EMPTY;
ASSUMING NO PARENT
The user specified a file name in the format
'child(parent)', and has left the parent name
blank, i.e., 'child()'.
*WARNING: FILE ! DOES NOT HAVE A
PRIMARY KEY
The file the user has specified is of type KSAM
and does not have an element associated with it
as its primary key.
*WARNING: DATA BASE HAS MORE
THAN ! UNIQUE SEARCH ITEMS; &
REMAINDER IGNORED
This warning message appears when an
internal table of data base search items
overflows.
*WARNING: RECORD LENGTH UPDATED
TO FILE RECORD SIZE
When a file has multiple file formats defined,
this warning message is issued if they are not of
all the same size.
*WARNING: ! IS AN INVALID COBOL
IDENTIFIER
The entity name has characters which are not
legal in a COBOL name, or has a leading
character which is not valid for a COBOL name.
*WARNING: ! IS A COBOL RESERVED
WORD
The entity name is a reserved COBOL name.
DICTCDE will adjust the name to a
non-reserved word.
*WARNING: ! HAS BEEN LIMITED TO 30
CHARACTERS
The prefix with the entity name is longer than
30 characters. COBOL identifiers are limited to
30 characters.DICTCDE will adjust the name to
30 characters.
*WARNING: BACK REFERENCE NAME !
IS AN INVALID COBOL IDENTIFIER &
The entity name back referenced has characters
which are not legal in a COBOL name.
*WARNING: CHILD NAME ! IS AN
INVALID COBOL IDENTIFIER
The entity name has characters which are not
legal in a COBOL name.
*WARNING: ! HAS AN UNDEFINED
COBOL TYPE !
The type does not map to any COBOL data type.
DICTCDE will map the type into a PIC X type
with equivalent storage size.
*WARNING: ELEMENT ! HAS ZERO
LENGTH
If an element is of size one, and has an explicit
decimal point designated, then there is no room
for the digit.