DISK - 2546 CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 68 - REASON CODE IS 192 during restore

Products

• Disk Backup and Restore - MVS
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE- ADD-ON OPTIO
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE

Issue/Introduction

Having trouble restoring a VSAM KSDS that was originally allocated on an SMS managed volume, to a different Storage class.

2519 FOR THE FOLLOWING REASON:
2546 CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 68 - REASON CODE IS 192                   
     SMS DENIED DEFINE REQUEST                                        
       CHECK FOR NON-SMS DEFINE ON SMS VOLUMES                        
0201 xxxxxxx.CLUSTER                   WAS NOT RESTORED DUE TO PREVIOUS ERROR

2433 =========================================================        
2433 AN SVC 99 ERROR HAS OCCURRED IN -- DYNAMIC ALLOCATION            
2433 ---------------------------------------------------------        
2433 S99R15RC => 4                                                    
2433 S99ERRCD => 1708                                                 
2433 S99INFCD => 0002                                                 
2433 ---------------------------------------------------------        
2433 DSNAME=xxxxxx.CLUSTER                                
2433 DATA SET NAME NOT CATALOGED

Resolution

If  the data set should be RESTORED with a new storage class, the STORCLAS parameter of the RESTORE command should be used to provide a Storage Class name which is defined to SMS. This is only valid with SMSALLOC set to Y.