z/OS MVS System Messages, Vol 8 (IEF-IGD)
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IEF464I

z/OS MVS System Messages, Vol 8 (IEF-IGD)
SA38-0675-02

IEF464I
jobname [procstep] stepname ddname[+ xxx] - DEVICE IS BOXED - CANNOT BE ALLOCATED

Explanation

The DD statement requested a specific device. The system could not allocate the device, because some earlier processing (hot I/O processing or VARY dev,OFFLINE,FORCE command processing, for example) boxed the device.

When a device is boxed, these events occur:

  • I/O on the device ends.
  • Any new I/O requests result in permanent I/O errors.
  • No new allocations are done for the device.
  • If the device was online, it is marked pending offline. The device goes offline when these conditions occur, in this order:
    1. The device is no longer allocated to any job.
    2. Allocation can get the necessary resources to process the request.

      If the device was offline, it remains offline.

In the message text:
jobname
The name of the job.
procstep
The name of the step in the procedure.
stepname
The name of the job step.
ddname
The name of the DD statement.
+ xxx
The relative position of a data set within a concatenation of data sets, including all data sets implicitly concatenated (through GDG ALL or OPTCD=B requests). See z/OS MVS JCL User's Guide for more information on GDG ALL or OPTCD=B requests when used within a set of concatenated data sets. The first data set of a concatenation would be +000, but the value +000 is never shown.

System action

The system ends the job.

Programmer response

Resubmit the job when the device has been brought back online.

Source

Allocation

Module

IEFAB4FD

Routing code

11

Descriptor code

-

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