S213-04 abends during Endevor package actions or shipment after converting a listing library to an ELIB

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

A S213-04 abend can occur when doing various package actions after having converted a listing library from PDS to ELIB.
The affected package actions are:

• RESET package
• COMMIT package
• DELETE package
• BACKOUT/BACKIN package
• Package Ship

 

 

 

 

Environment

All supported Releases

Endevor 

Package Ship 

Resolution

The abend occurs when the Endevor package action finds a package backout record that now points to an ELIB, while it was pointing to a PDS or PDSE at time the backout record and member were created.

As Endevor cannot handle backout records for ELIBs, it is not expecting a package backout record is pointing to an ELIB, so it opens the listing library using the incorrect I/O program, which leads to the S213-04 abend.

Run the Endevor job BC1JRPKG with the following DD statement allocated:

//EN$BKOUT DD DUMMY

When EN$BKOUT is allocated, BC1PPKGC will not only do standard package record cleanup but also remove all backout records pointing to ELIBs. After the clean-up all the previously mentioned package actions will work again.