VLSUTIL BACKUP on the Ideal source library gives these messages:
MEMBER NAME IN THE INDEX IS OUT OF SEQUENCE AND HAS BEEN SKIPPED. NAME IS member name and version
z/OS
Ideal
These messages are due to INDEX corruption.
Resolution is to repair the VLS library via the following steps:
If SELBKUP fails use IDEAL Source Transport EXPORT.
Note1: VLSUTIL with RESTORE NOCLEAR(R)
"R" to replace MEMBERs with same name
and "NOCLEAR" to not remove what is already in the VLS file.
Note2:
For all those MEMBER NAME IN THE INDEX IS OUT OF SEQUENCE AND HAS BEEN SKIPPED ,
run VLSUTIL SELBKUP on each MEMBER followed by RESTORE NOCLEAR(R) .
The full RESTORE has skipped all these "out of Sequence" members.
Take VLSUTIL backup on a regular basis and fairly often and check the output so that any error can be corrected quickly.
Index corruption can be due to:
- Previous abends.
- Misuse of DEQUE commands.
- VLS Block size not matching the FCT definitions on all systems.
- The system should be QUIESED (down) when library functions are performed. The library functions are BACKUP, FORMAT, INIT, and RESTORE.
- Not using standard backup utilities; VLSUTIL is highly recommended because it performs additional file verification.