CAY6560S GDG LIMIT PARAMETER "999" NOT WITHIN VALUE RANGE

Products

• JCLCheck Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

In z/OS 2.2 and higher, up to 999 generation data sets (GDGs) may be associated with the GDG.    The following is required to support 999 GDGs:  

1. The installation has GDGEXTENDED (YES) specified in the SYS1.PARMLIB(IGGCATxx) member.

2. JCLCheck DYNCHEK Rexx exec is installed. 

Issue: 

When validating an IDCAMS job with option EXTENDED and LIMIT(999),   JCLCheck returns error message CAY6560S GDG LIMIT PARAMETER "999" NOT WITHIN VALUE RANGE.

Sample JCL:

//  JOB statement

//STEP0   EXEC PGM=IDCAMS          

//SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*                          

//SYSIN    DD  *                                 

    DEF GDG(NAME(hlq.gdg.base) -           

            NOEMPTY SCRATCH EXTENDED LIMIT(999)) 

/*

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : JCLCheck Workload Automation

Cause

The installation has not enabled the GDGEXTENDED feature.

Resolution

1. The z/OS option GDGEXTENDED(YES) must be specified.  This option is found in SYS1.PARMLIB(IGGCATxx). 

2. The JCLCheck DYNCHEK Rexx Exec must be installed:  

     Copy member CAZ1DYNC from the JCLCheck CAZ2CLS0 library to your AXR Rexx library.   The AXR Rexx  library is generally defined in SYS1.PARMLIB(AXRxx) member. 

3. The JCLCheck loadlib (CAZ2LOAD) must be an APF-authorized library, or is in the linklist.  (Most installations are set up so that linklisted libraries are also APF-authorized.) 

To confirm that CAZ1DYNC is found, and that z/OS GDGEXTENDED option is activated, execute console command F AXR,CAZ1DYNC 'REPORT'.  This command must not return any error message.  Sample display:

F AXR,CAZ1DYNC 'REPORT'                                           

                                          

CAY7050I Exec starting, level: JCK01162                           

CAY7008I CGBL address: 0998A000 Created: 2019-08-06 07:56:36      

CAY7016I INPUTDEF JES3JECL=Ignore,NULLJCL=Ignore                  

CAY7012I JECLDEF JES2=(JOBPARM=Process,MESSAGE=Process,           

CAY7012I         NETACCT=Process,NOTIFY=Process,OUTPUT=Process,   

CAY7012I         PRIORITY=Process,ROUTE=Process,SETUP=Process,    

CAY7012I         XEQ=Process,XMIT=Process)                        

CAY7012I JECLDEF JES3=(MAIN=Ignore,DATASET=Ignore,                

CAY7012I         ENDDATASET=Ignore,FORMAT=Ignore,NET=Ignore,      

CAY7012I         NETACCT=Ignore,OPERATOR=Ignore,PAUSE=Ignore,     

CAY7012I         PROCESS=Ignore,ENDPROCESS=Ignore,ROUTE=Ignore)   

CAY7018I JES_Subsystem_Name='JES2'                                

CAY7018I JES_Subsystem_ID='02'                                    

CAY7018I CKPT_LEVEL='Z22     '                                    

CAY7019I CAS Enabled Feature  = GDGEXTENDED                       

CAY7050I Exec Ending                                                                                       

 

 

Additional Information

In the Documentation the following link:

(Optional) Install DYNCHEK Rexx Exec