Getting allocation errors in Endevor after upgrade or maintenance

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

If an Endevor Processor, DSN=IGNORE is coded as follows: 

 //SYSLIB DD DSN=IGNORE,DISP=SHR

After upgrading to 18.0.12 or applying maintenance, allocation errors start to occur as shown below. 

C1A0010E ALLOCATION ERROR RC=1708-0002, DDNAME=SYSLIB 
C1A0011E IKJ56228I DATA SET IGNORE NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE ACCESSED

Other messages can be issued also;

C1A0010E ALLOCATION ERROR RC=9710-42A4, DDNAME=SYSIN 
C1A0011E IKJ56894I FILE SYSIN NOT ALLOCATED+ 
C1A0012E IKJ56894I STORAGE MANAGEMENT SUBSYSTEM DETECTED AN ERROR, EITHER MESSAGES WERE NOT REQUESTED OR A SYST...

What is the reason of these errors?  

Environment

Release: 18.0, 18.1, 19.0
Component: ENDBAS

Resolution

In the ENCOPTBL there is an option: 

*********************************************************************** 
* IF THE DATASET NAME IN A PROCESSOR IS CODED USING THE DSN=IGNORE 
* PARAMETER, THE DD STATEMENT IS NOT ALLOCATED. THIS INCLUDES DD'S 
* THAT ARE IN THE CONCATENATION. 
* O0000524 
*---------------------------------------------------------------------* 
* ENHOPT IGNORE_SKIP_ALLOC=ON 
* 

This option was probably activated in the previous version or before the maintenance. Please verify that the Options that were enabled in the previous release or maintenance level are still enabled in the ENCOPTBL. 
Otherwise, open a case to Broadcom support.


 

Additional Information

To check that, rerun the job with trace EN$TROPT + BSTERR to check the status of options. If a same job still can be run with the previous version, please compare the result of each traces and re-apply the previous options?

Note:
The following traces allows to display the source of any Endevor tables, just invoke the options trace by allocating these two ddnames in the submitted batch JCL:

//BSTERR   DD SYSOUT=*
//EN$TROPT DD SYSOUT=*