U0008 during a TMSCLEAN after IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILIZATION IS CURRENTLY nn%

Products

• CA 1 Flexible Storage

Issue/Introduction

 

Receiving a U0008 or S7YY-104 abend after an IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILIZATION IS CURRENTLY nn% a TMSCOPY BACKUP is required.

 

Resolution

The execution of the backup program, TMSCOPY is required. All CA 1 utilities with the exception of TMSCOPY and TMSINIT will abend with a U0008 abend code until the backup is performed. When the Audit data set has no records left, all jobs requesting a tape mount will abend with a system code S7yy until the backup is performed.

You will see the IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILIZATION IS CURRENTLY nn% when the Audit data set has reached or exceeded the threshold established by the THAUDT option in the TMOOPTxx member of *..CTAPOPTN. This message appears with each change in percentage utilization until a backup is executed. Each occurrence is highlighted and nondeletable. When a new IEFTMS9 message is issued, the previous IEFTMS9 message is deleted. When the backup completes, the last IEFTMS9 message is deleted automatically with the next TMC update.