TSS9012W Recover File At Least 90% Full

Products

• Cleanup
• Top Secret for z/OS
• Top Secret for z/VM
• Top Secret for z/VSE

Issue/Introduction

What should be done when the following Top Secret message is received: TSS9012W RECOVERY FILE, AT LEAST 90% FULL?

Resolution

The TSS9012W message is informational only, alerting that the Recovery file is going to wrap soon. Backups should be taken at regular intervals to ensure that the information is saved. Once the Recovery file wraps, a TSS9011W message will appear to indicate that the file has wrapped. When the Recovery file wraps, the file is not cleared of all records. What happens is new records are written to the file starting at the beginning of it, overlaying the old records. 

There isn't a way to free up space in the Recovery file. The first thing to check is make sure that the BACKUP control option set so the security files are automatically backed up at the same time each day. 

The command TSS MODIFY can be issued to see the current control option settings, including BACKUP. 

If the BACKUP control option is set and the recovery file is not wrapping more than once a day, this is ok.

If the recovery file is wrapping more than once a day, a new, larger recovery file can be allocated to prevent this to happen. The member TSSMAINR in the Top Secret CAKOJCL0 library contains sample JCL to allocate the recovery file.