To request an audit of the data sets on one or more non-SMS-managed primary volumes or migration volumes, specify the AUDIT VOLUMES parameter.
For a specified volume serial, AUDIT first reads the volume record from the MCDS. If you do not include a volume serial number with the VOLUMES parameter, all the non-SMS-managed primary volumes and migration volumes that have volume records in the MCDS are audited.
In the following discussions, the master catalog and any associated user catalogs are called simply “the catalog”.
Errors encountered during AUDIT VOLUMES, AUDIT BACKUPVOLUMES, or AUDIT BACKUPTYPE describes conditions which can cause AUDIT to fail its checking.