DFS893A I/O ERROR READING $$IMSDIR OR THE DIRECTORY {-nnn}

Explanation

An I/O error occurred while issuing a FIND, POINT, or READ macro for the active FORMAT library during initialization of the message format block pool. This is probably caused by an error in the PDS directory. If the active FORMAT library has concatenated data sets, nnn indicates on which of the concatenated data sets the error occurred.

System action

IMS terminates abnormally with either abend 0893 or abend 0894.

Operator response

Notify your IMS system programmer.

Module

DFSIINF0, DFSIING0