After upgrading from 14.0, receive an S7ED ABEND (IEFTMS50 7XX-04, IECTMS3 NS32) trying to re-use a scratch tape.

Products

• CA 1 Flexible Storage

Issue/Introduction

Prior to upgrading to R15.0, the job would reuse the default tape multiple times a day (Luminex Default Tape).  The EXPDT always shows the next day.  After upgrading the job is receiving IECTMS3 Not Scratch 32.    To get this to work the tape has to be manually scratched and then the job can rerun. Has something changed to create this situation?

 

This is the scenario that needs to be accomplish:

Every day a temporary dataset is allocated to a reserved tape (V00000) to send to the LTO system.  Before in rel 14.0 the job ran multiple times a day using the same VOL.

Is it possible to re-use the reserved tape multiple times in a day without having to manually scratch the tape?  Using no expiration and changing the RP =0 doesn't seem to work. Also tried it with a prior date for expiration, as well as several other  scenarios  without success since upgrading to 15.0.

No DSN specified

DD Statement

//SYSUT2  DD VOL=SER=V00000,UNIT=(LTO,1,DEFER),

//       DISP=(NEW,DELETE)

 

A SYSdate.Ttime  temporary dataset is created

Environment

Release : 15.0

Resolution

With MAINT LU05200 the option WRKFLS was removed and now defaults to NO.  

 

Here is a solution to get around the problem:

You can always create file 1 on the tape if you change the JCL to DISP=OLD and keep recreating it.

You can change your DSN=to a valid (public) dataset name and change the disposition to DISP=OLD

So add a public (test) DSN and change the disposition to NEW (after scratching the tape) - and then change the disposition to OLD after it has been created one time.