IEC613A
jjj,sss,dev,ser TAPE POSITION ERROR - REPLY ‘R’ RETRY OR ‘U’ CONTINUE WITH ABEND

Explanation

For the step of the job, open processing is trying to position a tape volume serial number on a device to a specific file in order to open that file. Open processing has retried positioning the tape to the correct file (at least once), but cannot find the file because the file is not known. Open processing issued this message to ask if it should retry positioning the tape to the correct file again.

In the message text:
jjj
The job name.
sss
The step name.
dev
The device number of the specified device.
ser
The volume serial number.

Operator response

If you wish open processing to retry positioning the tape to the correct file, enter REPLY xx, ‘R’. Otherwise, to continue with the ABEND already in progress, enter REPLY xx, ‘U’. xx is the message reply identification for this message.

Source

DFSMSdfp

Module

IFG0199I