053

Explanation

There is not enough system queue area (SQA) storage available to initialize all of the I/O devices that are defined in the I/O configuration. The right-most four bytes of the program status word (PSW) have the following format:
rrrxxwww
where:
rrr
A hexadecimal reason code indicating the reason for the failure
xx
Reserved
www
The wait state code

The reason code (rrr) is one of the following values:

000
The system could not obtain enough system queue area (SQA) storage.
001
The system could not obtain enough extended system queue area (ESQA) storage.

System action

The system enters wait state X'053'.

Operator response

Notify the system programmer.

System programmer response

Contact IBM® Support to report this error. Modify the virtual storage allocated to the system queue area using the INITSQA keyword in the LOADxx member of parmlib.

Source

I/O Supervisor (IOS)