Hi Joel, I also have twin HDS9980V subsystems with TrueCopy and ShadowImage installed. I tried your ICKDSK JCL on using two of my 1 cylinder DASD volumes ( they are former XRC utility volumes ) and I believe I received the same error:
ICKDSF - MVS/ESA DEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 PPRCOPY ESTPAIR - DDNAME(A) - MODE(COPY) - PRIMARY(X'992F',43323,X'3E') - SECONDARY(X'992F',43323,X'3F') - LSS(X'0F',X'0F') ICK00700I DEVICE INFORMATION FOR 3F3E IS CURRENTLY AS FOLLOWS: PHYSICAL DEVICE = 3390 STORAGE CONTROLLER = 2105 STORAGE CONTROL DESCRIPTOR = E8 DEVICE DESCRIPTOR = 0A ADDITIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION = 4A000035 TRKS/CYL = 15, # PRIMARY CYLS = 1 ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE ICK10710I I/O ERROR OCCURRED ON DEVICE 3F3E CSW = 0EF038 0E000000 CCW = 270EF060 00000021 000EF060 + 00 62413E3F 0F00F0F0 F0F0F0F4 F3F3F2F3 000EF070 + 10 992F0F00 F0F0F0F0 F0F4F3F3 F2F3992F 000EF080 + 20 00 ICKDSF - MVS/ESA DEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 SENSE = 80000000 BE00000F 58000000 00000000 23124800 992F0F0F 000040C2 00000000 ICK34082I A COMMAND WAS RECEIVED THAT IS NOT VALID FOR THIS PPRC STATE ICK30003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 ICK00002I ICKDSF PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 12 I had the PPRC source volume, UCB address 3F3E and the PPRC target volume, UCB address 3F3F online to all of my z/OS images. When I varied the PPRC target volume offline ( as Ron Hawkins suggested ), the command worked: ICKDSF - MVS/ESA DEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 PPRCOPY ESTPAIR - DDNAME(A) - MODE(COPY) - PRIMARY(X'992F',43323,X'3E') - SECONDARY(X'992F',43323,X'3F') - LSS(X'0F',X'0F') ICK00700I DEVICE INFORMATION FOR 3F3E IS CURRENTLY AS FOLLOWS: PHYSICAL DEVICE = 3390 STORAGE CONTROLLER = 2105 STORAGE CONTROL DESCRIPTOR = E8 DEVICE DESCRIPTOR = 0A ADDITIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION = 4A000035 TRKS/CYL = 15, # PRIMARY CYLS = 1 ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE ICK02203I PPRCOPY ESTPAIR FUNCTION COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY ICK02231I DEVICE IS NOW A PEER TO PEER REMOTE COPY VOLUME ICK00001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 I also received the following messages on each of my z/OS images, which I normally receive whenever I start a PPRC pair on my system: IEA494I 3F3E,SO3F3E,PPRC PAIR PENDING,SSID=992F,CCA=3E IEA494I 3F3E,SO3F3E,PPRC PAIR FULL DUPLEX,SSID=992F,CCA=3E HTH Glenn Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html