IEC036I 002-AC and GIM30223E during ACCEPT processing for Netmaster

Products

• NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP

Issue/Introduction

An attempt to ACCEPT properly applied PTFs (by Chorus Software Manager) fails when accessing ACC11VSMI, which is a PDSE.
SMP shows 27 PTFs with "accepted in error".

Job shows  these SMP/E errors

GIM21802I    SYSMOD ENTRY LU03447 WAS STORED IN THE CAID81 ZONE.                                                            
GIM44002S ** SYSTEM ABEND 002 OCCURRED WITH A REASON CODE OF '000000AC'X AFTER SMP/E CALLED
      THE GIMDRS UTILITY TO PROCESS THE AC11VSMI LIBRARY. 
GIM40800I    ACCEPT PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD LU03447. SMP/E PROCESSING FAILED FOR AN ELEMENT 
      IN LU03447.                
GIM30223E ** ACCEPT PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD LU03425. PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD LU03447, 
      WHICH WAS SPECIFIED ON THE ++IF REQ OPERAND.
GIM30223E ** ACCEPT PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD LU03343. PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD LU03447,
      WHICH WAS SPECIFIED ON THE ++IF REQ OPERAND.

 

And this abend.

IEC036I 002-AC,IGC0005E,PSYACCP,SMPACCP,AC11VSMI,BF22,SYSM07,  221  
NMSTR.SMP.NMC2.AC11VSMI                             

IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT  226                                   
SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=002  REASON CODE=000000AC                   
 TIME=17.40.04  SEQ=00239  CPU=0000  ASID=00B6                     
 PSW AT TIME OF ERROR  075C1000   80E38B62  ILC 2  INTC 0D         
   ACTIVE MODULE           ADDRESS=00000000_00E36000  OFFSET=00002B
   NAME=IFG0199B                                                   
   DATA AT PSW  00E38B5C - 4100303C  0A0DB20A  00509808            
   AR/GR 0: 009BF7A0/00E38DCC   1: 00000000/A4002000               
         2: 00000000/0032D24C   3: 00000000/00E38D90               
         4: 00000000/009BA218   5: 00000000/009FF7C8               
         6: 00000000/009BA4BC   7: 00000000/FFFFFF74               
         8: 00000000/009BA4DC   9: 00000000/009BAEC0               
         A: 00000000/00ECAAF0   B: 00000000/00E387EE               
         C: 00000000/89851A20   D: 00000000/7F49ECE8               
         E: 00000000/00E387EE   F: 00000000/000000AC               
 END OF SYMPTOM DUMP              

Environment

Release : 12.2

Component : NetMaster Suite

Cause

Problem with PDSE processing

Resolution

The problem is with the ACC11VSMI, which is a PDSE.

Because this is an attempted ACCEPT, there is no option to back-out or remove and re-process PTFs.

There are multiple potential solutions.
1. Create new PDS and use IEBCOPY to move the members from the old PDSE to the new PDS.
    Rename the files and try the ACCEPT with the PDS.
    NOTE: file format of the members is converted when going from PDS to PDSE or vice versa so retain the original 
                dataset until you are sure everything is working.
                See also IBM doc on CONVERTING PDSE'S TO PDS AND BACK

Other options that may also work

2. Re-run the job in at a later time

3. Create a new PDSE and use TSO 3.4 or IEBCOPY to move content to the new PDSE.
    Rename the files to use the new one in your SMP job and try the ACCEPT again

Additional Information

If the product was installed with CSM, files are generated as PDSE, while the NetMaster Install utility will generate a PDS.
Both are acceptable.

Changing a library from PDSE to PDS does not negatively impact further processing in either CSM or when running batchjobs, but ensuring the PDS is sized large enough and has ample directory blocks is important.

If you are having a problem with APPLY processing see also KB 194052.