VM:Tape PKT003 abend

Products

• VM:Tape for z/VM

Issue/Introduction

VM:Tape abended with a PKT003.

Environment

Release : 2.0

Component : CA VM:Tape for zVM

z/VM 6.4 

Cause

VMTAPE 191 minidisk is full.

Resolution

To prevent, increase the size of VMTAPE's 191 minidisk.

 

VMTAPE's 191 is full which caused the PKT003 abend.

An automatic REFRESH was initiated because of a scratch pick failure and when trying to update the PICK files, a disk-full condition was encountered.

As shown in the console:

00:19:58 HIDRO    24FB VMTCMD1246I UNIT 3490E EXPDT 2020/249

00:19:58 HIDRO    24FB VMTPIK0936I Automatic REFRESH initiated due to scratch pick failure.

00:20:00 HIDRO    24FC VMTTMS0079I Total volumes= 50000, VM:Tape volumes= 47264, NONVMTAP volumes= 0, other saved volumes= 0.

00:20:00 HIDRO    24FC VMTTMS0118I There are 2736 scratch and 0 deleted tapes.

DMSERD107S Disk A(191) is full

00:20:03 VMTABN1126S CA VM:Tape system abend PKT003 occurred at 0006E782.