CA - DISK Backup and restore - IOS000I CMD during datasets backup

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Many IOS000I messages were issued  during a CA DISK datasets' backup  job (with the following format:

IOS000I C03D,F6,CMD,**,0E00,,80000000,GWK215,SGB07WRA, 091         

Environment

Release : 12.5

Component : CA Disk Backup and Restore

Cause

this is a hardware error, not a CA DISK problem. 

Resolution

All volsers reporting IOS000I with CMD had files belonging to one certain application ' residing in the vicinity of Cylinder 8000.

There were  several other files, residing on different DASD, that also had an embedded error within their records.

Deleting the files resolved the problem.