PDTDSCPY JOB GETS RC=8
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PDTDSCPY JOB GETS RC=8

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Article ID: 8591

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Bind Analyzer for DB2 for z/OS SQL-Ease for DB2 for z/OS SYSVIEW Performance Management Option for DB2 for z/OS Plan Analyzer for DB2 for z/OS Subsystem Analyzer for DB2 for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

PDTDSCPY job failed with return code of 8 without any error message. what's the problem?

Environment

Release:
Component: PDT

Resolution

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

FAILED STEPLIB 

//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=DSN.D2J0.DSNLOAD 

GOOD STEPLIB 

//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=DSN.DPG4.DSNLOAD 

// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=DSN.CATOOLS.CDBALOAD 

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