DFS4549E VALIDATION OF DD cccccccc FAILED. REASON CODE=rc [ERROR CODE=ec]

Explanation

Validation of the data set associated with DD cccccccc failed for the reason indicated in reason code rc. Optionally, the service identified by reason code rc failed with the error code indicated by error code ec.

System action

Processing of the utility terminated.

Output destination

The Systems console

System programmer response

Correct the problem as indicated by the reason code or error code and restart the job.
Table 1. Reason or error code
Code Explanation
1 The data set has members in it. The data set must be empty in order to proceed.
2 More than one data set is concatenated to the DD. Only one data set can be associated with the DD.
3 The data set is not a PDS-E.
4 The data set name does not match the naming convention for the IMS Catalog Directory.

See Data Set Names of the IMS Directory Data Sets for more details.
5 A DCB attribute of the data set is improper for DD cccccccc.
6 You cannot set DISP=SHR because the utility needs exclusive use of the data set.
7 A failure occurred while an attempt was made to open the data set.
10 The call to the DEVTYPE macro failed with error code ec. Check the DEVTYPE return code for the possible causes for error code ec.
11 The call to the ISITMGDA macro failed with error code ec. Check the ISITMGD return code for the possible causes for error code ec.