On 5/31/2012 4:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2012 21:45:54 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote:
There is a parmlib option to abend NOT CATLG 2. I recommend using it.
Would this cause the ABEND at the beginning or at the end of the job step?
The latter would be suboptimal.
IMO, SMS should be set up for all allocations and the fallback pathway to storage volumes
blocked. Back in the "old days", we did experience the scenario you describe.
After the same dataset name appeared on all available volumes, then the abend would occur.
I am also a strong believer in the philosophy "If it ain't cataloged, it doesn't
exist". I feel free to whack any such I find in the application storage pools. They
have always (so far) been the result of an error.
Sounds good.
On Thu, 31 May 2012 15:25:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
I run a job that creates a new data set using
this DD statement:
//NEWMAST DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=&SYSUID..WORK.NEW.ZINPUTA,
// LIKE=STNT329.TRAIN.ZINPUTA
Something has to specify the UNIT. Does "LIKE" establish the
UNIT but not the VOL? Strange.
LIKE establishes neither; UNIT comes from the system default
unit, usually SYSALLDA; VOL is chosen from available storage
volumes.
On occasion, when I want to create a data set if it doesn't exist
or reuse it if it does, I code, e.g.:
//ALLOC DD DISP=(MOD,CATLG),DSN=&SYSUID..WORK.NEW.ZINPUTA,
// LIKE=STNT329.TRAIN.ZINPUTA
//*
//NEWMAST DD DISP=SHR,DSN=*.ALLOC,VOL=REF=*.ALLOC
Would this fail if SMS-managed or "ABEND on NOT CATLGD 2" were
in effect?
I could use the well-known trick of "DISP=(MOD,DELETE)" in a
previous IEFBR14 step, but that would lose existing members if
the data set is a PDS.
-- gil
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