Thanks @brians
After googling "Exclude Yale smartlock" the important tidbit of information I was missing was proximity to hub from lock. To pair/unpair, they have to be one foot apart at most.
The lock took the commands without issue when I placed the hub next to it.
Interestingly, while repairing the lock, I received the same ZW-TX-FAILED at the dashboard. It paired successfully, but that message still appeared.
When doing manual sync to hub, it shows [ZW-TX-FAILED] enc=Ok uid=6.0 cmd=0x20.02 BASIC. So far the lock shows up at dashboard as usual.
I suppose I'll monitor for now and see if it does it again.
Thanks again for your help everyone.