DADSP558 on a new file placed under DADS Plus for CICS control, fails to allocate

Products

• DADS Plus

Issue/Introduction

A new VSAM file has been placed under DADS Plus for CICS control. At startup time, DADS fails to allocate the file and issues message DADSP558 error code 1708.

A DADS Plus online inquiry on the file transaction DADI shows a status of SVC99 FAILURE ON PRIMARY for the file in question.

Environment

Release: 4.0
Component: DADS Plus for CICS.

Cause

The file(FCT) had been added to DADS Plus for CICS but the VSAM cluster had not been defined. So at startup time, DADS issued an SVC99 to allocate the file defined to DADS but the VSAM cluster did not exist. DADS issued message DADSP558 error code 1708 which indicates the DSNAME NOT FOUND(NOT CATALOGED).

Resolution

After performing an IDCAMS define, the VSAM file and the DADS online transaction DADA was used to allocate the file to CICS. Before adding a file to DADS, make sure the cluster exists on DASD.