IEC161I 120-053 and N28503 on ALERTH when upgrading Netmaster

Products

• CMDB for z/OS
• NetSpy Network Performance
• 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,,,MST.D7KR.NMIP.NMIPCC.ALERTH
IEC161 MST.DUKR.NMIP.NMIPCC.ALERTH.D,PRODCAT1
N28503 OPEN FAILED FOR VSAM ACB, CODE=X’DC’, DD ALERTH 


When using system symbolics in the RUNSYSIN and INIFILE, the errors are different:

IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM LOGFILES failed. Error message follows 
BAINWI24 NO LOG FILES ALLOCATED, ACTIVITY LOGGING DISABLED 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM MODSFILES failed. Error message follows 
ADDF09 INVALID DATASET NAME 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM PANELLIBS failed. Error message follows 
IAIN0133 Parameter group $NM PANELLIBS failed, proc=$NMINWIZ, RC=8 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $AM ALERTHIST failed. Error message follows 
N11A04 INVALID DATASET NAME. 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM MSDB failed. Error message follows 
N11A04 INVALID DATASET NAME. 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM NETINFODB failed. Error message follows 
N11A04 INVALID DATASET NAME. 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $PS PSMSPOOL failed. Error message follows 
N11A04 INVALID DATASET NAME. 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM SYSTEMID failed. Error message follows 
N12802 SYSPARMS OPERAND ID=NMIPCC. IS INVALID OR OUT OF RANGE. 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $RM AUTOFILES failed. Error message follows 
N11A04 INVALID DATASET NAME. 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM MULTISYS failed. Error message follows 
RMDBMS13 SERIOUS NDB ERROR ON RAMDB NDBRC=245 ERROR=N/A 
N09703 NetMaster PRIMARY ACB NMIPCC NOW OPEN. 
N28502 OPEN FAILED FOR VSAM ACB, CODE=X’80’, DD ALERTH 
IAIN0167 (NMIPCC) parameter group $NM VSAMMONITOR failed. Error message follows 
IAIN0133 Parameter group $NM VSAMMONITOR failed, proc=$NMINWIZ, RC=8 

Environment

Release: SLOPFC00200-12.1-NetMaster-File Transfer Management
Component:

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. 

The files showing the 
N28502 OPEN FAILED FOR VSAM ACB
error need to be deleted and redefined using the IDCAMS statements as defined in the S01LCALC job.