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AN INVALID RECORD WAS ENCOUNTERED ON A GET OPERATION. THE LENGTH FIELD OF A RECORD DESCRIPTOR WORD (RDW) FOR A VARIABLE LENGTH RECORD SPECIFIES A VALUE LESS THAN 4.

  1. S002 - 14

  2. S002 - 24

  3. S002 - 04

  4. S002 - 34

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Explanation

The system abend S002 with reason code 04 indicates an invalid record was found on a GET operation where the RDW length is less than 4 bytes (the minimum size of the RDW itself). Other reason codes like 14, 24, and 34 designate different block or record length conflicts.