VSAM SHAREOPTION ERROR On Endevor ELMCATL and EINDEX

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

After creating and coping the Endevor Element Catalog and EINDEX, when accessing Endevor the following error occurs: 

VSAM SHAREOPTIONN ERROR. DSN=....ELMCATL.EINDEX

 

Environment

Release : 18.0

Component : CA Endevor Software Change Manager

Resolution

The error means that the SHARE OPTIONS are incorrect. Below is how the Element Catalog and EINDEX should be defined:

DELETE UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL
DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME('UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL') -
SPEED -
UNIQUE -
FREESPACE(5 5) -
CYLINDERS(NN NN) -
VOLUMES(VVOLSER) -
RECORDSIZE(640 1017) KEY(255 0) SHR(3 3)) -
DATA (NAME('UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL.DATA') -
CISZ(8192)) -
INDEX (NAME('UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL.INDEX') -
CISZ(2048))
DELETE UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL.EINDEX
DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME('UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL.EINDEX') -
SPEED -
UNIQUE -
FREESPACE(5 5) -
CYLINDERS(NN NN) -
VOLUMES(VVOLSER) -
RECORDSIZE(287 400) KEY(10 0) SHR(3 3)) -
DATA (NAME('UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL.EINDEX.DATA') -
CISZ(8192)) -
INDEX (NAME('UPRFX.UQUAL.ELMCATL.EINDEX.INDEX') -
CISZ(2048))

Make sure that the SHR is 3,3