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causer SYSMOD is a SYSMOD whose failure
led to the failure of other SYSMODs. To identify causer SYSMODs, SMP/E
performs root cause analysis for the ACCEPT, APPLY, and RESTORE commands.
The types of errors SMP/E analyzes to determine causer SYSMODs include
the following:
- Held SYSMODs
- Missing requisite SYSMODs
- Utility program failures: copy, update, assembler, link, zap
- Out-of-space conditions: x37 ABENDs
- Missing DD statements and other allocation errors
- ID errors (a SYSMOD does not supersede or specify as a prerequisite
an RMID or a UMID of an element)
- JCLIN errors (syntax errors)
The results of SMP/E's root cause analysis are presented in
two reports:
- SYSMOD Status report
This report summarizes the processing
done for each eligible SYSMOD. For SYSMODs that failed, the report
lists the causer SYSMODs.
After you check the SYSMOD Status
report to determine the results of processing, use the Causer SYSMOD
Summary report to determine which errors need to be corrected.
- Causer SYSMOD Summary report
This
report lists the causer SYSMODs along with a brief summary of the
related messages, descriptions of the errors that caused the SYSMODs
to fail, and, when feasible, some causes for those errors.