Abend U0610 in SMR Archive Job

Products

• SMR

Issue/Introduction

SMR Daily Archive job has been failing with U0610 with error:

* SMR611I PLADALNW R/C = 970C0000 - DSN = syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24312    
*99  SMR610W PLADALNW - RESOURCE UNAVAILABLE, REPLY 'RETRY' OR 'CANCEL'.

Automation would reply - RETRY 3 times and then the job abends with. 
 
IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT  429                                     
  USER COMPLETION CODE=0610                                          
 TIME=08.12.14  SEQ=03272  CPU=0000  ASID=011F                       
 PSW AT TIME OF ERROR  078D1000   00007F6E  ILC 2  INTC 0D           
   ACTIVE MODULE           ADDRESS=00000000_000077A0  OFFSET=000007CE
   NAME=PLRARCH                                                      

Environment

SMR 3.4

Cause

Normal processing of SMR archive.

• reads the MASTER and ALTERN files until record - syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.SMRyyddd
• changes the name to - syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARCyyddd
• adds 'A' in column 1 of the record on both files to indicate Archived successfully
• creates new record - syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.SMRyyddd+1 with space in column 1
• writes last record as control record.  Refer sample below.

Resolution

1. Stop SMR
2. Edit both MASTER and ALTERN datasets by
   * adding 'A' in column 1 for the datasets "syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24312" to "
   "syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24318". (7 records needed correcting after 7 daily archives failed)
   * ensure dataset name: "
   "syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.SMR24319" remains unchanged.
3. Start SMR

Subsequent Daily Archives completed ok.

Additional Information

Sample records from end of hlq.smr.MASTER.  ALTERN file is identical. 

A24309syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24309
A24310syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24310
A24311syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24311
 24312syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24312
 24313syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24313
 24314syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24314
 24315syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24315
 24316syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24316
 24317syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24317
 24318syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.ARC24318
 24319syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.SMR24319
 69000syst.SYSLOG.DAILY.SMR69000