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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 11, 2024

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 

09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser Z1D001.
09:58:46 ARYS248E - Task 01 - Error invoking ICKDSF. Please check file SYSPR01T for problem determination.

and IN ICKDSF we see : 

ICKDSF - MVS/ESA DEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 TIME: 09:58:46 02/02/24 PAGE 1

INIT UNITADDRESS(9E00) VOLID(Zxxxx) -
VTOC (X'0000',X'0001',X'01D0') -
NOVERIFYOFFLINE NOVFY -
INDEX(X'001F',X'0000',X'005D') -
MAP PURGE NOCHECK NOVALIDATE STGR
ICK00700I DEVICE INFORMATION FOR 9E00 IS CURRENTLY AS FOLLOWS:
PHYSICAL DEVICE = 3390
STORAGE CONTROLLER = 2107
STORAGE CONTROL DESCRIPTOR = E8
DEVICE DESCRIPTOR = 0C
ADDITIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION = xxxxxx
TRKS/CYL = 15, # PRIMARY CYLS = 30051
ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE
ICK00091I 9E00 NED=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ICK03091I EXISTING VOLUME SERIAL READ = Z7D000
ICK03096I EXISTING VTOC IS LOCATED AT CCHH=X'0000 0001' AND IS 464 TRACKS.
ICK32179I DATA SETS EXIST ON VOLUME
ICK30003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12

after opening a ticket to IBM support they ask to change system default settings and this is not a good option for us because it protect from human errors 

We propose to add this as an option added by Recovery Expert when it generate the the ICKDSF sysin 

Without that we can't automacticly reinit space efficient volumes and recover space

 

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