CIA08007E: INVALID-FORMAT-ERRMSG

Explanation

The request message coming from the service requestor into the CICS® Service Flow Runtime is in an invalid format. This error message can occur for the following reasons:
  • An inbound request message was received in the CICS SFR DPL Stub program (DFHMADPL), indicating a passthrough format. This can occur if the following conditions exist:
    • the CICS SFR header structure DFHMAH indicates a version +2 header structure
    • the field DFHMAH-VERSION equal +2, and the field DFHMAH-FORMAT equal 'MAH2,' indicating passthrough
    • the field DFHMAH-UOWCONTROL equal +3, indicating passthrough.

    The existence of the passthrough header structure DFHMAH2, without the above field settings will not result in this error condition, but might cause CICS SFR adapter flow processing failure, as all request data subsequent to the DFHMAH header structure will be treated as application input data.

  • A request message from the service requestor was received in the CICS SFR Passthrough Stub program (DFHMADPP), that does not indicate a passthrough request message format. The header structure DFHMAH must indicate the following:
    • a version +2 header structure, field DFHMAH-VERSION equal +2
    • a Link3270 passthrough format, field DFHMAH-FORMAT equal 'MAH2'
    • a CICS SFR Passthrough processing, field DFHMAH-UOWCONTROL equal +3.
  • An invalid CICS SFR Passthrough request message from the service requestor was received in the Link3270 Passthrough program (DFHMALPT), transaction ID = 'CMAL'.

User response

Check that the correct CICS SFR request message format and header structure field settings are used in the client application.

In the case of an invalid CICS SFR Link3270 Passthrough request message received in the program (DFHMALPT), the most likely cause is a missing CIA-SCREEN-HEADER or CIA-MAP-HEADER. The screen header and map header must immediately follow the DFHMAH and DFHMAH2 header structures in the inbound passthrough request message. See DFHMAH2 header structure.