CA 1 Tape Management - CA EARL report TMSEARL14 - *** INVALID DSNB CHAIN ***

Products

• CA 1 Tape Management
• CA 1 Tape Management - Copycat Utility
• CA 1 Tape Management - Add-On Options

Issue/Introduction

The CA EARL report component (in the CA 1 housekeeping suite of jobs) highlighted the following errors: 

+TMSEARL03 - INITIALIZING FOR CHAINED PROCESSING                       
+TMSEARL14 - *** INVALID DSNB CHAIN ***                                
+TMSEARL15 - VOLUME/FILSEQ --->      -00000 NOT ONE GREATER            
+            THAN PREVIOUS --->NG3315-00141                            
 +TMSEARL14 - *** INVALID DSNB CHAIN ***                                
 +TMSEARL15 - VOLUME/FILSEQ --->      -00000 NOT ONE GREATER            
 +            THAN PREVIOUS --->NG3325-00026                            

Environment

Release : 14.0

Component : CA 1 Tape Management

Resolution

1. Run the CA 1 utility TMSPTRS to determine the exact nature of the chaining errors being  highlighed

2 Run TMSUDSNB or ISPF panel updates to reset NEXTDSNB field on the erroneous DSNBs

 

 

Additional Information

For the ERR81 msgs 
- update NEXTDSNB field on the DSNB being reported in TMSPTRS to be HEXZEROS - use TMSUDSNB or ISPF panels to achieve this.
- verify the LSTDSNB field on the VOLUME record is pointing to the correct DSNB record.

Rerun TMSPTRS to confirm the ERR81 and ERR33 msgs have been resolved