U200 abend with IEC331I 020-000(2908001C) on all BACKUP/ARCHIVE jobs

Products

• Disk Backup and Restore - MVS
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE- ADD-ON OPTIO
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE

Issue/Introduction

Using DISK, it can happen that all BACKUP/ARCHIVE jobs get an ABEND U200 with IBM error message IEC331I 020-000(2908001C), as in the sample listing below: 

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IEC331I 020-000(2908001C),DB2ALOGA,DMS     ,IGG0CLEG                           

IEC331I CATLIB                                                                  

IEC331I hlq.DMSC.S2020255.T083741                                     

IEC332I PADD,NVSM,IDVR,CDVR,ACD1                                               

IEC333I L028(041),00,CATLIB,hlq.DMSC.S2020255.T083741                 

PET202I USER ABEND(U0200) AT PSW(078D1000 80178D1A).                           

PET999I CA DISK WAS PROCESSING DSN=dsname      

PET999I ON VOLUME=volser                                                       

IEF450I DB2ALOGA DMS ARCHIVE - ABEND=S000 U0200 REASON=00000000  171      

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Is there a way to fix this problem? 

Environment

Release : All

Component : CA Disk Backup and Restore

Resolution

The IBM Message IEC331I 020-000(2908001C) is documented at the below link:

IEC331I 020-000(2908001C) - CATALOG CANNOT EXTEND

This error indicates that the catalog is unable to extend.  This error is described under IDC3009I and cites the following reasons:

 - There is no more space on the volume on which the catalog resides
 - The maximum number of extents has been reached (123)
 - The catalog has reached the 4GB limit
 - There is not enough contiguous space on the volume (required when the catalog's secondary allocation is defined in tracks).

the IBM documentation explains how to debug and possibly fix the Catalog problem.

With DISK it has been observed that one of the main reasons causing this issue is that the HIGH Used RBA value has reached the High Allocated RBA value in the User Catalog KSDS Vsam dataset, so that  the Idle Space is 0%.
A User Catalog REORG should be done in order to recover the situation and improve the Idle Space percentage.  

Additional Information

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