Frank, Good info, thanks. One of the issues with the graying of the MF workforce is that this type of information is lost. I would suggest that it would be either trainers friend or CA give training class say once a year in TMS "internals". Steve are you listening?
Ed Sent from my iPad On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:39 AM, "Bonaduce, Frank" <frank.bonad...@gs.com> wrote: > As the issue has been pretty much addressed, I just wanted to add that in > addition to TMSCOPY to backup the TMC/AUDIT files, there should be at least a > daily execution of maintenance utilities like TMSCTLG, TMSEXPDT, TMSCYCLE and > TMSCLEAN. This will ensure that volumes which should be expiring are and that > the TMC remains 'healthy'. We run this process twice a day, each time > performing the backup first before any of the other maintenance utilities. > > The original issue is a situation best addressed by not only regular TMSCOPY > executions, but also noting that the size of the AUDIT file is directly > proportionate to the amount of tape activity that takes place between TMSCOPY > executions. High tape activity requires either a larger AUDIT file or more > frequent TMSCOPY executions. Another sizing consideration is that of problem > determination. The larger the AUDIT file, the further back in time you can go > if you are researching an issue with volume usage. Since the AUDIT file is a > 'wrap' file, more of the older records are overwritten as tape activity > increase so if you want to keep older records longer, size it larger. This is > also a side note as to how the AUDIT file functions. When you run TMSCOPY, it > is not emptied but rather pointers stored in the TMC control records are > adjusted. > > Frank. > ------------------ > Frank Bonaduce > GSG Systems Engineering > > ======================================================================== > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR) > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 4:35 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED > > Why don't you just backup the TMC? Surely you have a daily job that does > this - and it should clear the AUDIT file when it runs the backup from what I > remember. > > From Quickref: > > Action: Execute the backup program, TMSCOPY. All CA 1 utilities except > TMSCOPY and TMSINIT will abend with a U0008 abend code until the backup is > performed. When the Audit data set has no records left, all jobs requesting a > tape mount will abend with a system code S7yy until the backup is performed. > > C. Todd Burrell > PMP, MCSE 2003:Security > MCITP: Enterprise Administrator > MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Admin 7 > Security+, Network+ > ITIL V3 Foundations > CSC Lead z/OS Systems Programmer > ITSO > (404) 723-2017 (Cell) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 3:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:12:59 -0700, esmie moo <esmie_...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >> Good Morning Gentle Readers, >> >> I was called because the following message was coming up on the console: >> IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED, AUDIT FILE UTILISATION IS CURRENTLY 82%. >> > <snip> > >> What I would like to know if this is the correct action to take or should I >> have done something else. Please advise. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> > > Correct actions for something like this: > > 1) Look up message IEFTMS9 from the CA manual and note the action > > 2) If you don't understand #1, contact the vendor. > > Your statement "should I have done..." implies you already did this, so it > doesn't appear to > be an 0 dark 30 question where you didn't understand the manual and didn't > want to > wait for a return call from the vendor. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > mailto:m...@mzelden.com > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
