Errors after a request is scheduled

If discrepancies are found after issuing an AUDIT command, they are noted and related to you by the following means:

Scheduling error messages for full library audits are issued to you by the z/OS SEND interface unless the scheduling error occurred prior to any volumes from the library being successfully scheduled and that error was severe enough to prevent any other volumes in the library from also being scheduled. This early detected severe error is reported on the ISMF help panel. SEND messages contain the volser (if known) of the volume for which the error was found and text that indicates the type of error found in attempting to validate an audit request.
If the scope of the audit is volume list or single volume, scheduling errors are not reported to you by the z/OS SEND interface. These errors are indicated on return to the ISMF panel from which the AUDIT was initiated and can be interrogated by using the ISMF message and help panels.
Errors incurred while attempting to perform the physical audit for any of the three audit scopes, single volume, volume list, or full library are reported to you by the z/OS SEND interface.
After auditing a volume, the error status field (ERRSTAT) of the OCDB volume record is updated. As notification that the audit is complete and the error status fields can be reviewed, a completion message is sent to you through your TSO/E logon session. If you are not logged on when OAM issues these errors or completion messages, they are saved in the SYS1.BRODCAST data set. You will receive these messages the next time you log on to TSO/E.

For more information about the ISMF message and help panels, see z/OS DFSMSdfp Storage Administration.