During inventory management vital record processing, DFSMSrmm has detected that a NAME vital record specification specifies the same name as used previously in the chain. DFSMSrmm cannot process the loop in the chain because it includes a retention NAME vital record specification. You can only have a loop in a vital record specification chain when the NAME vital record specifications contain no retention information.

In the message text:

type

This is the type of vital record specification and can be one of the following:

DSN

DSN is a data set name in vrs_entry

VOL

VOL is a specific or generic volume serial number in vrs_entry

vrs_entry

vrs_entry is either the data set name and jobname, or the generic volume serial number of the vital record specification at the start of the chain.

name_vrs

name_vrs is the name of the NAME vital record specification that was already used earlier in the vital record specification chain.