Movescu 65536 remaining suboperations

[Cyril_S]

Hello,

By querying some PACS, the move operation works well for a study containing about 700 files. The number of completed suboperations is correct but the number of remaining suboperations is very large (starting at 65536, and decreasing as it should).

I use the movescu command line tool, version 3.6.2.

My guess is the signed short number is casted as unsigned short number somewhere. Any advice to get a consistent number of suboperations? I performed many queries to this PACS using dcmtk 3.6.0 without facing this issue.

Thanks in advance,

Cyril

[J. Riesmeier]

According to the DICOM standard (PS3.7), the Value Representation of both (0000,1020) Number of Remaining Sub-operations and (0000,1021) Number of Completed Sub-operations is "US" (Unsigned Short), i.e. a 16-but unsigned integer. Not sure where the difference between DCMTK 3.6.0 and 3.6.2 comes from.

[Cyril_S]

Thank you for the quick reply.

I'll try to contact the PACS brand and see if it's a known issue on their side.