p_manage_21: "File xxx does not exist" when the file *does* exist

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Description:
I submitted p_manage_21 with an input file "newABC_MATY_records".

The $alephe_scratch/abc60_p_manage_21.00082 job log has these lines at the end:

Param Errors Found:
F01: File /exlibris/aleph/u18_2/alephe/scratch/new does not exist.
Param Initialization Failure, Exiting !!!

But the file newABC_MATY_records *does* exist. Is it looking for a file with just the name "new"?

Resolution:
The reason the input file newABC_MATY_records is not being found is that the submission process changes uppercase characters in the filename to lowercase and looks for a file with that name.

Renaming the file in $alephe_scratch to all lowercase ("new_abc_maty_records") corrected this problem.

Though there may be some cases where this is not a problem, as a general rule, you should *not* use uppercase letters in file names: use lowercase letters only.

Only the first 40 characters of the file name appear in the error message, so the full name is not appearing.