IPC: SMP/E Error IEW2303E in Link-Edit from Apply Job ( IPC30APB )

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Issue/Introduction

IPC 15.1 installation SMP/E apply job (IPC30APB) is getting RC=08 

Environment

Release : 15.1

Component : IPC

Cause

Portion of apply job output near top 

 GIM23913I    LINK-EDIT PROCESSING FOR SYSMOD CAVQF15 WAS SUCCESSFUL FOR MODULE VLTSRM65 IN LMOD VPEHJN67 IN THE SMPLTS
              LIBRARY. THE RETURN CODE WAS 04. DATE 20.217 - TIME 10:54:46 - SEQUENCE NUMBER 000017 - SYSPRINT FILE
              SMP00014.
 GIM23913I    LINK-EDIT PROCESSING FOR SYSMOD CAVQF15 WAS SUCCESSFUL FOR MODULE VLTSWM65 IN LMOD VPEHJN67 IN THE SMPLTS
              LIBRARY. THE RETURN CODE WAS 04. DATE 20.217 - TIME 10:54:46 - SEQUENCE NUMBER 000017 - SYSPRINT FILE
              SMP00014.
 GIM23911E ** LINK-EDIT PROCESSING FOR SYSMOD CAVQF15 FAILED FOR MODULE ICVAANF IN LMOD VPEHJN66 IN THE CAVQLOAD LIBRARY.
              THE RETURN CODE (08) EXCEEDED THE ALLOWABLE VALUE. DATE 20.217 - TIME 10:54:46 - SEQUENCE NUMBER 000016 -
              SYSPRINT FILE SMP00011.
 GIM23911E ** LINK-EDIT PROCESSING FOR SYSMOD CAVQF15 FAILED FOR MODULE ICVAL IN LMOD VPEHJN66 IN THE CAVQLOAD LIBRARY.
              THE RETURN CODE (08) EXCEEDED THE ALLOWABLE VALUE. DATE 20.217 - TIME 10:54:46 - SEQUENCE NUMBER 000016 -
              SYSPRINT FILE SMP00011.

Portion of apply job output near bottom

 IEW2303E 1030 MEMBER DFHEAI OF THE DATA SET SPECIFIED BY SDFHLOAD COULD NOT BE FOUND.
 IEW2322I 1220  98    INCLUDE SDFHLOAD(DFHEAI0)              TYPE=UTIN
 IEW2303E 1030 MEMBER DFHEAI0 OF THE DATA SET SPECIFIED BY SDFHLOAD COULD NOT BE FOUND.
 IEW2322I 1220  99     ORDER  DFHEAI,ICVHJEIC,DFHEAI0
 IEW2322I 1220  100     ORDER ICVJOSC,ICVJSZP
 IEW2322I 1220  101     ENTRY DFHEAI
 IEW2322I 1220  102     MODE AMODE(31),RMODE(ANY)
 IEW2322I 1220  103    NAME VPEHJN67(R)                       MAX ACCEPTABLE RC=04
 IEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL DFHEI1 UNRESOLVED.  MEMBER COULD NOT BE INCLUDED FROM THE DESIGNATED CALL LIBRARY.
 IEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL DFHEAI0 UNRESOLVED.  MEMBER COULD NOT BE INCLUDED FROM THE DESIGNATED CALL LIBRARY.
 IEW2470E 9511 ORDERED SECTION DFHEAI NOT FOUND IN MODULE.
 IEW2470E 9511 ORDERED SECTION DFHEAI0 NOT FOUND IN MODULE.
 IEW2648E 5111 ENTRY DFHEAI IS NOT A CSECT OR AN EXTERNAL NAME IN THE MODULE.

Resolution

One of the ways to navigate and debug these types of issues with SMP/E jobs is to scroll down through the output until an "E" level message is found. In this case, error message GIM23911E was found first which deals with the (LMOD) load module VPEHJN66.

Then starting from the bottom of the output, perform a search previous for "(R)" to locate a module link-edit until you find an IEW###E error message. In this example, the error message in the link-edit states:

DFHEAI0 OF THE DATA SET SPECIFIED BY SDFHLOAD COULD NOT BE FOUND 

 REASON: The DDDEF for SDFHLOAH in job IPC10CSI which built the CSI was not pointing to a valid CICS SDFHLOAD library dataset. 

 ACTION: Correct the SMP/E CSI's DDDEF for SDFHLOAD to point to a valid CICS SDFHLOAD library and then rerun the APPLY job .