Starting IXR and backup jobs but the IXR STC and the backup jobs hang with no error messages?
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Starting IXR and backup jobs but the IXR STC and the backup jobs hang with no error messages?

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Article ID: 11920

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ASM2- STORAGE MANAGEMENT ASM2 Backup and Restore

Issue/Introduction

How do we resolve the hang at startup of IXR? No error messages are being produced.



Starting IXR and backup jobs but the IXR STC and the backup jobs hang with no error messages?

Environment

z/OS

Resolution

Usually messages will be issued in most cases. A hang with no IPC or JNL initialization messages being issued usually means that the JNL file has been opened properly and the IPC has been opened but the control record has yet to be read.

You would expect the following message to be issued:

 

ASMBR940 IPC INITIALIZATION FAILED, CODES(RSN=8,INFO=20,LOWINFO=24)

 

In the message manual you would look this up in the Appendix A to review the OPEN IPC error codes.

Since no messages was issued this means that the OPEN process for the IPC has not failed but has failed to load the control record from the IPC. IXR and backup jobs are waiting for the initialization to complete.

Cookbook to resolution:

Since the IPC is having a problem it would be best to cancel the tasks that are hanging.

1) REPRO the IPC out to a sequential file

    sample JCL:

//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IDCAMS                                   
//SYSUT1   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your hlq.ASM2IPC              
//SYSUT2   DD DSN=your hlq.ASM2IPC.SEQ,                
//            DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),                       
//            DCB=(RECFM=VB,BLKSIZE=8196,LRECL=8192,DSORG=PS),
//            SPACE=(CYL,(2,1)),VOL=SER=vvvvvv               
//SYSPRINT  DD SYSOUT=*                                      
//SYSIN DD *                                                 
 REPRO INFILE(SYSUT1) OFILE(SYSUT2)     

2) Delete the IPC and the JNL files and allocate new files

 Sample JCL to allocate new IPC and JNL files and also initialize the files. The last step will repro your sequential file back into the new IPC 

//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IDCAMS                                      
//SYSPRINT  DD SYSOUT=*                                         
//SYSIN DD *                                                    
 DEF     CL (                                  -                
          NAME(your hlq.ASM2IPC)           -                
          UNIQUE FREESPACE(0 0)                -                
          CISZ(4096) KEY(80 8)                 -                
          RECORDSIZE(512 4089)                 -                
          SHAREOPTIONS(3 3))                   -                
     DATA (                                    -                
          NAME(your hlq.ASM2IPC.DATA)      -                
          CYLINDERS(270 5)                      -               
          VOLUME(vvvvvv))                      -                
    INDEX (                                    -                
          NAME(your hlq.ASM2IPC.INDEX)     -                
          CYLINDERS(25 5)                      -                
          VOLUME(vvvvvv)                       -                
          CISZ(4096))                                           
                           
/*         

//DEFINE  EXEC  PGM=IDCAMS                                 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=(*)                                   
//SYSIN    DD *                                            
 DEFINE  CLUSTER (                                    -    
          NAME(your hlq.ASM2JNL)                  -    
          CISZ(4096)                                  -    
          RECORDSIZE(256 4089)                        -    
          REUSE                                       -    
          SHAREOPTIONS(3 3)                           -    
          NONINDEXED                                  -    
          )                                           -    
     DATA (                                           -    
          NAME(your hlq.ASM2JNL.INDEX)            -    
          CYLINDERS(25 5)                             -    
          VOLUME(vvvvvv)                              -    
          )                                                
//*                                                        
//*   ANALYZE AND INITIALIZE IPC/JNL                       
//*                                                        
//$$$$$$@  EXEC PGM=M2PCBRU                                
//STEPLIB  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=your hlq.ASM242.CAILIB         
//$OPTIONZ DD  DUMMY                                       
//SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*                                    
//SYSUDUMP DD  SYSOUT=*                                    
//ISPMLIB  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=your hlq.ASM242.CAIISPM        
//ASM2IPC  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=your hlq.ASM2IPC           
//ASM2JNL  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=your hlq.ASM2JNL           
//SYSIN    DD  *                                           
ANALYZE CATID(ASM2)       
 
//STEP2    EXEC PGM=IDCAMS                                      
//SYSUT1   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your hlq.asm2ipc.seq,
//SYSUT2   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your hlq.ASM2IPC                 
//SYSPRINT  DD SYSOUT=*                                         
//SYSIN DD *        

  REPRO IFILE(SYSUT1) OFILE(SYSUT2) NOREPLACE ELIMIT=9999                                       

3) If there is problems with the REPRO, such as a duplicate record condition, then this must be resolved before you can put the IPC back into production.

   

Additional Information

To resolve duplicate record conditions you must sort your IPC sequential file and remove the duplicate records. If you require assistance with this task you open an issue with CA Technical Support. The documentation required will be:

The REPRO job used to create the sequential file

Use TRSMAIN to compress the sequential file and send it in binary to the ASM2 support team. Attach the file to the issue.