HISTM IEF286I - DISP FIELD INCOMPATIBLE WITH DSNAME

Products

• MICS Resource Management

Issue/Introduction

The HISTM monthly archive job is failing with the following error:

IEF286I N97228HI MICS HISTM HIHARCCU - DISP FIELD INCOMPATIBLE WITH DSNAME

Environment

CA MICS Resource Management r14

Cause

Reference is made to an existing generation data group (GDG) data set name (for example,
generation 0), but the data set does not yet exist.                

f.e

//HIHARCCU DD DISP=OLD,DSN=prefix.HISTM.HARCCU(0),
// VOL=(PRIVATE,RETAIN),                                 
// UNIT=(,,DEFER)                                        

Resolution

Submit the job in 'prefix.CNTL(GDGSGEN)'  to create the GDG Base and 0 generation history archive datasets. 
If required, set the month step to M=900 before resubmitting the HISTM job.   

Additional Information

More information about the HISTM Operational Job can be found here