VSAM Error: A REQUIRED VOLUME LIST HAS BEEN OMITTED

abin · Active User Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 198

Can anybody explain to me about the importance of key word VOLUME in IDCAMS

The following IDCAMS was working fine in test region but got error in production

error is IDC3506I A REQUIRED VOLUME LIST HAS BEEN OMITTED

DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME(IPHP.NONV.DRUG.IPH841NR.INTRN.ERVSAM) -
INDEXED -
RECORDSIZE(25 25) -
KEYS(25 0) -
UNIQUE) -
DATA (NAME(IPHP.NONV.DRUG.IPH841NR.INTRN.ERVSAM.DATA) -
CYLINDERS(10 10) ) -
INDEX (NAME(IPHP.NONV.DRUG.IPH841NR.INTRN.ERVSAM.INDEX))

William Thompson · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:53 pm

If you do not specify the MODEL parameter, VOLUMES must be specified either as a parameter of CLUSTER, or as a parameter of both DATA and INDEX. If the data and index components are to reside on different device types, you must specify VOLUMES as a parameter of both DATA and INDEX. If more than one volume is listed with a single VOLUMES parameter, the volumes must be of the same device type.

abin · Active User Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 198

Thanks will ,

That was correct I missed the VOLUME parameter.

The reason it worked in test region was test DASD was defaulted in our shop for all test jobs. But in production the case is different, you need to specify VOLUME.

In my shop even if I miss UNIT parameter in a DD statement file will be created in test DASD.

expat · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:08 pm

If your shop is SMS managed, methinks your storage guys are a bit lapse there.

Why was the dataset not automatically put into its correct STORGRP - it has space defined so no possible confusion on whether it is a tape dataset or not.

abin · Active User Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 198

It is not a Tape data set, It is DASD, but the problem was in test region UNIT was defaulted and in production it was not.

And yes shop is SMS managed.

expat · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:12 pm

Actually it is an IDCAMS error message - where IDCAMS must have that parameter specified in the control statements.

I would say that the DATACLAS allocated to your VSAM cluster does not have a default number of volumes defined, so if it is not otherwise defined in the IDCAMS control statements, the define will fail.