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TSS9122I - TSSENQ: UNABLE TO ENQ ON ACID CFS012 , ENQ HELD ON SYSTEM MVS3
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Issue/Introduction
TSSENQ on the Security file
We received this message: TSS9122I - TSSENQ: UNABLE TO ENQ ON ACID CFS012 , ENQ HELD ON SYSTEM MVS3 *TSS9123A - UNABLE TO OBTAIN SECURITY FILE ENQ. 070 TSS9123A - SYSTEM MVS3 HAS HELD LOCK FOR 001 MINUTES TSS9123A - IF SYSTEM MVS3 IS NOT OPERATIONAL TSS9123A - REPLY 'RESET', OTHERWISE REPLY 'WAIT'. TSS9123A - WARNING: INDISCRIMINATELY REPLYING 'RESET' TSS9123A - MAY CAUSE CORRUPTION OF THE SECURITY FILE *39 TSS9123A - REPLY 'RESET' OR 'WAIT' SYSID After while the system issued a cancel: TSS9122I - TSSENQ: UNABLE TO ENQ ON ACID CFS012 , ENQ HELD ON SYSTEM MVS3 IEE400I THESE MESSAGES CANCELLED - 39. IEE400I THESE MESSAGES CANCELLED - 42. We are trying to understand why it was unable to ENQ on ACID CFS012 and what exactly was it trying to ENQ on? And what was the ENQ that MVS3 held? What caused this and what is the correct response?
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Resolution
The most common cause is a batch job doing a lot of TSS administration (ie TSS LIST(ACIDS) DATA(ALL) or a bunch of TSS commands). Other causes could be a backup being taken while some other type of commands are issued or a batch job running.