Causer SYSMOD summary report

To reduce the work needed to determine which errors caused SYSMODs to fail, SMP/E performs root cause analysis for the ACCEPT, APPLY, and RESTORE commands to identify causer SYSMODs. A causer SYSMOD is a SYSMOD whose failure has led to the failure of other SYSMODs. The types of errors SMP/E analyzes to determine causer SYSMODs include the following situations:

Held SYSMODs
Missing requisite SYSMODs
Utility program failures: copy, update, assembler, link-edit utility, zap
Out-of-space conditions: x37 ABENDs
Missing DD statements and other allocation errors
ID errors (a SYSMOD does not supersede or specify as a prerequisite an RMID or a UMID of an element)
JCLIN errors (syntax errors)

The Causer SYSMOD Summary report lists the causer SYSMODs and a summary of the related messages describing the errors that need to be fixed to successfully process the SYSMODs. (Subsequent messages generated because of these initial errors are not included in the report.)

This report is produced during the processing of APPLY, ACCEPT, and RESTORE commands. It is not produced when there are no errors or when there are certain types of errors, such as unusual VSAM errors (as indicated by GIM443xx messages).