PK43008: IEF238D APPEARED EVEN THOUGH TAPECHK(Y) WAS SPECIFIED.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• "IEF238D REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL'" message appeared during
  PTF verification tests in spite of the fact that TAPECHCK(Y) was
  specified in the DRF batch job.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: IMS Database Recovery Facility Version 3     *
  *                 Release 1 users are affected.                *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Users may receive a MSGIEF238D DEVICE   *
  *                      NAME OR CANCEL if performing recovery   *
  *                      with an insufficient number of tape     *
  *                      devices available for parallel          *
  *                      processing.                             *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: INSTALL CORRECTIVE SERVICE FOR APAR/PTF      *
  ****************************************************************
  When using the TAPECHK option, DRF is expected to recognize the
  number of available tape devices as specified by the user with
  the READNUM option.  DRF is expected to wait for the next
  available tape device before attempting to mount another tape in
  parallel to other running processes.  However, there are cases
  where image copy tapes are allocated to a device before log and
  change accumulation tapes had a chance to be unallocated from
  their devices.
  

Problem conclusion

•  AIDS: RIDS/UTIL RIDS/DBS DBS/UTIL
    DEP: NONE
    GEN:
  
  *** END IMS KEYWORDS ***
  Allocation logic for log and change accumulation data sets is
  change to keep a count of the number of tape devices allocated
  for log and CA read.  This count will help prevent the
  subordinate address spaces from exceeding the number of
  available tape devices supplied on READNUM during image copy
  allocation.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UK27282

Modules/Macros

•    FRXAWEX  FRXMSTR0 FRXRVRA  FRXYALL0 FRXYUNA0
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  IMS DB RECOVERY

• Fixed component ID

  5655I4400

Applicable component levels

• R310 PSY UK27282

     UP07/07/24 P F707