Re: Allocation mystery

2012-06-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 31 May 2012 19:31:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: 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. Humph! I

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-06-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4fc7e1b0.6070...@trainersfriend.com, on 05/31/2012 at 03:25 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: I'm finding an unexpected allocation situation that maybe someone can explain. Are all of your datasets supposed to be SMS managed? If so, there is an ACS issue. If not, it has

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Tom Marchant
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: //NEWMASTDD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=SYSUID..WORK.NEW.ZINPUTA, // LIKE=STNT329.TRAIN.ZINPUTA Job runs fine and creates the new file. Is the data set SMS managed?

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Gibney, Dave
Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 2:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Allocation mystery On Thu, 31 May 2012 15:25:04 -0600, Steve Comstock

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Conley
On 5/31/2012 5:26 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: I'm finding an unexpected allocation situation that maybe someone can explain. 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 Job runs fine

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 31 May 2012 21:45:54 +, 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

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/31/2012 4:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 21:45:54 +, 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

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/31/2012 4:13 PM, Thomas Conley wrote: On 5/31/2012 5:26 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: I'm finding an unexpected allocation situation that maybe someone can explain. I run a job that creates a new data set using this DD statement: //NEWMAST DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=SYSUID..WORK.NEW.ZINPUTA, //