If you could state your z/OS Level and post your IDCAMS control cards that could help.
Have you called Mainstar support? Sometimes they know tricks that are not obvious. Have you contacted IBM Support for assistance?/ They also maybe helpful. Thanks Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Guy Eshel > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: DELETE CLUSTER fails (IKJ56882I / IEF195I) > > 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... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
