Running Bufrprep

Hello Biswas,

I am trying to run bufrprep; however, I am missing the gfs.12z.prepbufr file. I added the following lines to my configuration file and prepbufr.gdas.20190824.t00z.nr with a new name to the gfs.2019082412 folder: 

[bufrprep]

bufr_item=gfs_bufr ;; item for bufr files, for the hwrf.input to find them

bufr_dataset=gfs ;; dataset for bufr files, for the hwrf.input to find them

prepbufr_item=gdas_prepbufr_rst ;; item for prepbufr files, for the hwrf.input to find them

[gfs2017_naming]

gdas_prepbufr_rst=gdas1.t{aHH}z.prepbufr

After running it with the above commands: I received the following error: 

01/19 16:31:51.736 hwrf.bufrprep (bufrprep.py:706) CRITICAL: bufrprep failed: "Cannot find key 'gdas_prepbufr_rst' in section 'comm_hist'"

Traceback (most recent call last).

I am not sure about how to go around this error without having gfs.12z.prepbufr file. I appreciate your help on this.

Thank you,

Hana