Inspection lot not found QALS

Hi Experts.

I have a production order (inspection type 03) that has an inspection lot assigned when i go to CO03. When I search for that inspection lot. SAP is giving message "IL cannot be found, do you want to search archive?". If i hit yes, I get the message IL was not created. This is a new IL and so it wouldn't have been archived.

Things I've already done for this issue.

1. Search table QALS for IL in SE16N. Result: IL was not found

2. Search for IL in QA03. Results: IL does not exist.