Daily report job failure SVC99 reason=0218

Products

• MICS Resource Management

Issue/Introduction

The MICS Daily reporting job ends with a CC=8 in the ICFDY400 step.   The MICS log contains the following messages

ICF01077W SAS PROCESSING ERRORS ENCOUNTERED.  SAS ENDED WITH RC=8.                                                                                                                                                                        

ICF01077W SEE THE SAS LOG FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Review of the SAS log shows the following error

ERROR: SVC99 error rc=4, reason=0218 : IKJ56221I DATA SET xxxxxxxxx NOT ALLOCATED, VOLUME NOT AVAILABLE+IKJ56221I VOLUME  NECESSARY TO SATISFY YOUR REQUEST NOT ON SYSTEM, AND CANNOT BE MOUNTED.

ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.

 

Environment

Release: r14
Component: MICS Resource Management

Cause

The SVC99 error reason 0218 indicates that the specified volume is not mounted, and the user doesn't have MOUNT authority for dynamic allocation requests.

Resolution

Work with security group to get the userid being used to run the report job setup with correct authority for dynamic mounts.