The difference between the error messages 3525 and 2546 issued in Disk jobs.

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

The two backup jobs ended with two different return codes for the same data set.
The job had the error message: 3525 and ended with RC=04.
The next job had error message: 2546 and ended with RC=08.
What is the difference between the above two error messages.

Environment

Release: Disk™ Backup and Restore

Resolution

The differences in the two runs is:

3525 - No data sets were selected during DSCL selection. The only data sets found are cataloged to the Disk pseudo-volume.

2546 - There were no entries found in the catalog, not even pseudo-vol entries for ARCIVE data sets.

For the 3525, these is a Sysparm that can be specified:

DSCLOWRC
N – (Default) Cond. Code not reduced.
Y - If a FIND command can locate no data sets to process (3525), CC 4 is reduced to a 0.

Additional Information

Refer Disk Tech docs for the Sysparms CCDRESET and SMSLOWRC for other options those affect the return codes.