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2871

NO MORE ARCHVOLS ID PATTERN CHARACTERS AVAILABLE.

Reason:

This is one of those messages you should never get, since CADisk has the capability of generating 800,000 unique ARCHVOLS keys. If you have received this message, here is what has happened and some possible solutions:

Each time CADisk is asked to generate a unique key, it first retrieves the lowest entry in the ARCHVOLS subfile using the current ID character. CADisk generates unique keys by using the first valid ID character supplied in sysparm ARCVOLID and, starting with 99999 and decrementing by 1 for each subsequent request, generates a key. For example,

99999, )99998, )99997 ... )0000

When the 00000 entry has been generated, CADisk retrieves the next ID character from sysparm ARCVOLID and begins again from 99999 generating unique keys. For example,

%99999, %99998, %99997 ... %0000

If you receive this message, it implies that CADisk has generated a 00000 key entry for every valid ARCVOLID character supplied. Possible solutions are:

• Run MERGE and write some of your archived data sets to tape, thus freeing up some of the unique keys.
• Supply additional ID characters through sysparm ARCVOLID. Note: Valid ID characters are non-alphanumeric characters except CADisk pattern characters ('/', '*' '!' and '?').