Detector PDTDSCPY job encounters RC=8 and no additional messages

Products

• Detector for DB2 for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Detector for Db2 for z/OS (PDT) PDTDSCPY job failed with return code of 8 without any error message.

Resolution

There could be many reasons for this kind of behavior but for this case the failing job was missing the hlq.CDBALOAD in the job STEPLIB as seen below:

Failed STEPLIB:
//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=hlq.DSNLOAD 

Good STEPLIB:
//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=hlq.DSNLOAD 
//                DD DISP=SHR,DSN=hlq.CDBALOAD