Here's an interesting puzzle...
We have a VSAM data set, which currently occupies more than 59 volumes:
- The data component spans on 59.
- The index component spans on 2, but one of them is not among the data's 59.
Which sums up to 60 volumes.
The actual data is accessable just fine - no issues reported from the batch
process using it.
But now we want to get rid of the file, yet every attempt at manipulating the
data set itself (moving / deleting / reorganizing / migrating) fails with
errors such as:
IKJ56882I DATA SET VSAM.DATA.SET NOT ALLOCATED, TOO MANY VOLUMES
IKJ56882I NUMBER OF VOLUMES SPECIFIED EXCEEDS LIMIT
or
IEF195I DELJOB IDCAMS VSAMDD - MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DEVICES FOR DD EXCEEDED
Haven't had any luck using IDCAMS / dfDSS / dfHSM / CA-Disk.
We have Catalog RecoveryPlus, but it doesn't offer a complete deletion
solution. Using it will probably require various ZAPs and cleanup.
Is there a proper way to deal with this? Any suggestions would be appreciated...
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