Endevor ALLOCATION ERROR RC=970C-0000

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

The allocation of a permanent dataset in the processor is failing with an allocation error: 

C1A0010E  ALLOCATION ERROR RC=970C-0000, DDNAME=FILE1
C1A0011E  IKJ56894I DATA SET PERM.SYSTEM.DATASET NOT ALLOCATED+
C1A0012E  IKJ56894I STORAGE MANAGEMENT SUBSYSTEM DETECTED AN ERROR, EITHER MESSAGES WERE NOT REQUESTED

They are also receiving a security violation in JES output: 

ICH408I USER(userid) GROUP(group) NAME(name)  609
    609               PERM.SYSTEM.DATASET CL(DATASET ) VOL(*BLANK)
    609               DEFINE - INSUFFICIENT AUTHORITY

 

 

Environment

Release : 18.0 18.1

 

Cause

User not authorized to allocate that dataset

Resolution

Give the user the authority to allocate that dataset. Permanent dataset allocations happen under the userid, not the alternate id