Am I just getting more cranky as I age, or are IBM messages
getting ever more obtuse?
I just submitted a simple JCL error. Just put in a VOL=SER=XXXXXX
where XXXXXX is a volume we do not have in our shop. Should be a simple
error, with a simple IBM Message saying "That VOLSER does not exist, or is
not online" (dummy). I would swear that used to be some such. But what
I got was EDG8197I VOLUME HFS009 IS NOT DFSMSrmm MANAGED
Here is the expanded JCL. so you might see that it is not talking
about tape. and NO, F83D is not a tape unit address, it is the unit
address of HFS000, and that was my typo.
XXDASD DD DISP=OLD,UNIT=/&U,VOL=SER=&V
IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - DISP=OLD,UNIT=/F83D,VOL=SER=HFS009
There are a number of other examples of this, but now I am going
to start keeping track of them. This message is worse than useless, it
misleads the unwary into thinking that RMM is involved in the problem.
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