BPA0188W: RC/MERGER IDENTIFIED RBA FORMAT

Products

• RC Compare for DB2 for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

RC/Merge analysis got message

BPA0188W: RC/MERGER IDENTIFIED RBA FORMAT,VERSION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SOURCE SSID1  AND TARGET SSID2  SUBSYSTEMS IN THE DB2 CATALOG. SET AUTOREPAIR Y TO RUN A REPAIR CATALOG TO CORRECT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PAGESET AND DB2 CATALOG ON THE TARGET SUBSYSTEM.                                     

 

How to identify the source member in message BPA0188W when the  mentioned source is a group member?

 

Environment

Release:
Component: RCM

Resolution

The SOURCE SSID can be found from the DATASET CALL of the RC/Merger output.

Please see below.

.CALL RCMERGER PARM(SSID1,DATASET)
.DATA
TABLESPACE (QSY.SDEV00)
SHRLEVEL (NONE)
SRCSSID (SSID1)
SOURCETS (QSY.SDEV00)
TSCURVER (1)
SRCDSN0001 (SSID1A.DSNDBC.QSY.SDEV00.J0001.A001)
TRGSG0001 (GDBSMS)
TABLE (QSY.RESTRICT_SDEV00)
SRCOBID (00460)
TABLE (QSY.TDEVADD)
SRCOBID (00173)
TABLE (QSY.TDEV001)
SRCOBID (00017)
TABLE (QSY.TDEV002)
SRCOBID (00018)
COPY (NO)
SRCRBA (00D19EE6240E0BA01A00)
MAXTASKS (03)
.ENDDATA

Look at SRCDSN0001. The first Qualifier will give you the Source SSID Information. 
Also, from the error message BPA0188W, we could easily identify the Target as SSID2.