XCOMJOB ends with a RC=8 after Upgrade to XCOM for z/OS 12.0

Products

• XCOM Data Transport
• XCOM Data Transport - z/OS

Issue/Introduction

 After an upgrade from V11.6 to V12 on our LPAR, we get a RC=8, but no further messages in the job, SYSLOG or in the XCOM STC that can assist in determining the problem. When running an XCOM transfer job from another LPAR to the XCOM r12 LPAR, the transfer is successful, but when runnng a transfer job from the r12 LPAR to same other LPAR,  RC=8 is received. 

Environment

XCOM for z/OS r12

Cause

//XCOMINIT DD DUMMY will suppress the XCOMINIT output

Parameters from the EXEC PARM= override were invalid and not recognized.

 

Resolution

After removing the //XCOMINIT DD DUMMY statement from the job, the XCOMINIT DD was generated and provided the necessary information to determine the cause of the RC=8 of the XCOMJOB. In this case two parameters from the EXEC PARM= override were not recognized. Once the parameters were corrected the job was successful.

Additional Information

//XCOMINIT DD DUMMY will suppress the XCOMINIT from the output of the job. Please see article:

New JES-file XCOMINIT