CA7 Upgrade - ABEND U2014, in module CAL2DCV1

Products

• CA 7 Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Shutdown CA7 V11.3 with /DMPQ,

Run job AL2DCC10 - backup CA7. Completed successfully. 

Run job AL2DCC20 - abended with USER COMPLETION CODE=2014 REASON CODE=00000065. 

Also see error message '+Invalid VRM type encountered'. 

Environment

Release : 12.1 Component : CA-7 - Upgrading from R11.3 to R12.1

Cause

Job AL2DCC10 was modified in STEP JS030.
The OUTPUT DD was incorrectly updated with the wrong DCB information.

 

Resolution

Job AL2DCC10 was changed in STEP JS030.
The OUTPUT DD was correctly run with (from install JCL hlq.AAL2JCL(AL2DCC10):

//OUTPUT   DD DSN=CA7hlq.VRM.BKUP,               <--- Output backup 
//            DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),                              
//            UNIT=TAPEUNIT,                     <--- Unit type     
//            DCB=(RECFM=VB,LRECL=32704,BLKSIZE=32708)              

 

Note : Do not change DCB information on datasets used by upgrade utilities.