Closing the ADSDM218 ARCHVOLS record and making it valid for purge process

Products

• Disk Backup and Restore - MVS
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE- ADD-ON OPTIO
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE

Issue/Introduction

Job moved ARCHIVEd datasets from ML0 to ML1. Due to the large amount of data (> 35GB), the job took more than the default time and abended with S322 (not enough time).

One of the ARCHVOLS which was being written is now flagged as 'OPEN' and when MERGE job run, which migrates ML1 datasets to ML2, the following message is received:

ADSDM218 3778 ARCHVOLS RECORD (nnnnn) SELECTED FOR MERGE PROCESSING IS MARKED AS OPEN, 
THEREFORE, THIS RECORD IS BEING BYPASSED. 

Is there a way to 'close' this ARCHVOLS record and make it valid for the MERGE process?

Environment

Release: Disk™ Backup and Restore

Resolution

When a process fails (or is cancelled) while writing to an output volume, the ARCHVOL is marked as OPEN and will remain in that state for the next two (2) days grace period. The Merge job that is running should simply bypass the volume and continue processing any other volumes in the list. After two (2) days the volume that was open at the time of the failure (or cancellation) will be picked up and processed normally.
To circumvent the two day grace period, IXUPDATE RESET command can be run with these below parms:

RESET KEY=nnnnnn,CLOSED

This will turn-off the OPEN flag so the Archvols volume can be used for Merge, Purge or IXMAINT.