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> I'm having trouble with incoming ship data via ldm and the decoder > dcmsfc. We are receiving ship data via ldm but none of it is being decoded. > This apparently stopped working some time ago but we only use the data > occasionally so no one noticed. I'm running GEMPAK 7.3 Hi Greg, this is very strange. I checked our server here and nothing seems out of sorts with dcmsfc. > The pqact action we are using is: > > WMO > (^S[IMN]V[^GINS])|(^S[IMN]W[^KZ])|(^S(HV|HXX|S[^X]))|(^SX(VD|V.50|US(2[0-3]|08|40|82|86)))|(^Y[HO]XX84) > PIPE dcmsfc data/gempak/surface/shYYYYMMDDHH.gem The pattern action to match the header I'm using is the same as yours, though the full pqact entry is different: WMO (^S[IMN]V[^GINS])|(^S[IMN]W[^KZ])|(^S(HV|HXX|S[^X]))|(^SX(VD|V.50|US(2[0-3]|08|40|82|86)))|(^Y[HO]XX84) PIPE dcmsfc -b 9 -a 10000 -d data/gempak/logs/dcmsfc.log -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/tables data/gempak/ship/YYYYMMDD_sb.gem and to confirm the files exists on our system: /opt/ldm/data/gempak/ship% ls -al -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6522880 Feb 27 16:40 20150226_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6495232 Feb 28 16:40 20150227_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6515200 Mar 1 16:30 20150228_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6505472 Mar 2 16:42 20150301_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6514688 Mar 3 10:26 20150302_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6411776 Mar 3 10:26 20150303_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6557184 Mar 4 14:43 20150304_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6563840 Mar 5 16:47 20150305_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6534144 Mar 6 10:05 20150306_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6571520 Mar 8 17:10 20150307_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6569984 Mar 9 01:32 20150308_sb.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ustaff 6552064 Mar 9 13:38 20150309_sb.gem > The output I'm seeing in the dcmsfc.log file looks like this: > > [19404] 150309/1204[SF -1] data/gempak/surface/sh2015030918.gem > [19404] 150309/1204[SF -1] data/gempak/surface/sh2015030918.gem > [19404] 150309/1204[DM -5] data/gempak/surface/sh2015030918.gem > > I'm attaching the dcmsfc.log file if that helps. Can you help me diagnose > what's wrong? Not being able to reproduce this problem will make fixing it difficult. DM -5 is the error "Invalid dimension sizes" SF -1 is the error "File could not be created." I'm making some guesses here on what to check: 1) is the disk full? 2) do the files data/gempak/surface/sh2015030918.gem exist but are 0 size? 3) can you create/touch a new file in the directory data/gempak/surface/ as user ldm? (touch data/gempak/surface/tmp) 4) what is the full pattern action entry in your pqact.conf? If you copy the one I posted above from our system, does the problem continue? Michael Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QPC-645656 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Open