ACFCC203 error during IPL

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC

Issue/Introduction

At IPL time, the following ACF2 message occurs repeatedly:

*87 ACFCC203 ACF2 CACHE SYNCHRONIZATION DATASET INITIAL READ FAILED -   
REPLY 'C' OR 'U' 

The process is a never ending loop for a U reply. C is only reply that stops the WTOR. Why is this error occurring?

Resolution

The most likely situation is that the ACF2 SYNCFILE may have been corrupted in some way. The ACF2 syncfile should be re-allocated.

If the problem occurs even after re-allocating the syncfile, set the following SLIP and send the resulting DUMP to Broadcom Support:

SLIP SET,ID=ACF,MSGID=ACFCC203,A=SVCD,MATCHLIM=1,END