FRD4417E DATA SET ALLOCATED TO ANOTHER JOB AND CANNOT BE CREATED. PART=partname DSN=dsname

Explanation

IMS Database Recovery Facility tried to create the OSAM output data set dsname for the HALDB partition partname as part of one of the following tasks:
  • Starting a HALDB OLR for the partition.
  • Tracking these changes at the RSR tracking site.
Creating the data set required that the data set be allocated as though DISP=NEW had been specified on a JCL DD statement. However, a data set of the same name was already in use by another job, causing the allocation to fail.

System action

If this error occurred while starting the reorganization, then the reorganization is not started, but the partition remains accessible with the original active set of data sets--either the A-through-J and X or the M-through-V and Y data sets. If this error occurred at the RSR tracking site, then the shadow partition is taken offline.

In either case, one or more of the output data sets might have already been created automatically.

User response

Ensure that no other job is using a data set of the name dsname even if that data set is not cataloged and even if that data set is not intended to be the same data set as the output of the reorganization.

Then if the error was detected while processing the INITIATE OLREORG command, reissue the command for partition partname.

If the error was detected at the RSR tracking site, issue a START DB command for the partition in order for Online Forward Recovery to continue updating the partition.

Module

FRXIOCD0, FRXDDCD0