0552 R15=28 R0=84 on DELETE processing

Products

• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE

Issue/Introduction

DELETE job ended with condition code 4.
The target data set was scratched from disk, but catalog information was not deleted with error message '0552 R15=28 R0=84'.

Jobs procedures were as follows:
1) Allocate a PS data set which defined retention period.
2) ARCHIVE.
3) RESTORE.
4) DELETE. The data set was deleted from the disk with the catalog information remaining.

Resolution

"CATPURGE set to Y" on DELETE process solves the problem.
Specify the sysparm with a value of Y (the default is N) to cause Disk archive processing to purge a catalog entry even if it is found to be unexpired.

Additional Information

CR24-VKB