IEC161I 120-053 and N28503 on ALERTH when upgrading Netmaster

Products

• NetMaster Network Automation
• SOLVE
• NetMaster Network Management for SNA
• NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP
• NetMaster File Transfer Management

Issue/Introduction

Upgrading Netmaster to 12,2 and seeing these errors at startup

IEC161I 120-053,NMIPCC,NMIPCC,ALERTH,,,<hlq>.ALERTH
IEC161 <hlq>.ALERTH.D,PRODCAT1
N28503 OPEN FAILED FOR VSAM ACB, CODE=X’DC’, DD ALERTH 

Cause

VSAM file corruption when ported over from another system.

Resolution

The ALERTH VSAM file was corrupted.
Further files are not processed.

This can happen to other VSAM files as well.