DWW0243E

An illegal record length is in the after-image record. The data set is dddd .

CICS® VR has found an after-image with an invalid record length when recovering from a z/OS® log. The keyword value FIXED in the FCTCOMP command is not specified. The CICS® VR default is VARIABLE. Thus, CICS® assumes the first 4 bytes to be the record descriptor word (RDW). Refer to z/OS DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets for more information about the RDW.

CICS® VR stops the recovery for this sphere and continues for the other spheres.

Include the FCTCOMP FIXED command and keyword, and then rerun CICS® VR. If CICS® VR applied updates to the VSAM data set, restore a new copy from the backup before you rerun the job.