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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 6, 2022

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Enhance IDCAMS error reporting - IDC3027I

We recently had a problem where the VTOC was full or near full on multiple volumes. Many batch jobs were failing when attempting to do an IDCAMS DEFINE and IDCAMS was generating the following message:

IDC3027I NO SPACE IN VTOC OR VTOC INDEX

The Programmer action section of the message text refers to "the volume", but there is no indication in the IDCAMS output or the joblog in general as to exactly which volume is affected, making it difficult to know what volume to fix--especially in a very large environment with hundreds or thousands of volumes.

It would be helpful if the IDCAMS output would include the VOL=SER of the affected volume... either by adding it to the the IDC3027I message or adding a new message with that information.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 4, 2022
    .IDCAMS does not receive the failure volume information. However, SMS APAR OA63721 will print message IGD17002I with the VOLSER when the failure occurs, The requested function is therefore in APAR OA63721.

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