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 HIcccfff - DISP FIELD INCOMPATIBLE WITH DSNAME

 

*** 'ccc' represents the component identifier (ex. RMF) and 'fff' is the file identifier (ex. CCU).

Environment

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 exist.                

f.e

//HIcccfff DD DISP=OLD,DSN=prefix.HISTM.cccfff(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 in the unit checkpoint dataset before resubmitting the HISTM job.

Additional Information

Review your unit data retention specifications in 'prefix.PARMS(DBMODEL)'  to determine the different retention limits for the online and archive database files.  

More information about the HISTM Operational Job can be found here