DISK - S002-A8 during a BACKUP of large PDSE

Products

• Disk Backup and Restore - MVS

Issue/Introduction

Received S002-A8 abend when running a BACKUP or ARCHIVE of a PDSE member that contains more than 15,728,739 records.                             
As per the IBM documentation, S002-A8 abend can be caused by Backup of a large PDSE  and following is present in the IBM documentation.

NOTE:

• A macro was issued for a PDSE data member, but the records are more than 15,728,639 in the member and   BLOCKTOKENSIZE=LARGE was not specified for the PDSE when it was opened.
• Could not return a valid value.

Environment

Release : Disk Backup and Restore 12.5

Resolution

To correct this problem please apply the LU00854.