IEC339I
xxxxxxxx INSUFFICIENT STORAGE FOR VSAM CATALOG [COMMUNICATION] WORK AREA

Explanation

VSAM catalog initialization issued a conditional GETMAIN for CCA storage and it failed due to a lack of storage.

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System action

VSAM catalog management returns to the caller with an error code in Register 15 immediately after detecting the error. If the catalog request is from job scheduler or the catalog controller, the return code value will be 8. Otherwise, the return code value will be 164 and the reason code will be 10.

Programmer response

Increase the region size available to the job step. The storage size requested was approximately 4288 bytes.

Source

DFSMSdfp

Routing code

11

Descriptor code

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