Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-23 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, An update from IBM: I found the caller of SMS was IDCAMS module IDCSA11 +x'24D4' base z/OS 1.7. The data shows they passed in a unit of all zeros in the control block known as the ACERO. I verified that your ALLOCxx and your SMS base configuration had a default unit so I would think

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Dean, Do your ACS routines allow for user specification of Data,Mngt, or Stor classes? Look for something similiar to this in your routines, WHEN (DATACLAS EQ DATA_CLASS UNIT EQ DASD_UNIT) /* ALLOW USERS TO SPECIFY */ DO

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Correction below, without the =3d From: O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 8:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Dean, Do your ACS routines allow for user specification of Data,Mngt, or Stor classes? Look

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread John Kington
WHEN (DATACLAS EQ DATA_CLASS UNIT EQ DASD_UNIT) /* ALLOW USERS TO SPECIFY */ DO /* DATA CLASS FOR ANY */ SET DATACLAS =3D DATACLAS /* DASD_UNIT ALLOCATION*/ EXIT END Until the OP fixes the

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Good point, I should have removed the dasd unit test. From: John Kington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent WHEN (DATACLAS EQ DATA_CLASS UNIT EQ DASD_UNIT

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, I added a STORCLAS and DATACLAS parm to the define and it didn't take. I still got the required volume list missing. I modified the ACS routine to include ''' (quote quote) in the filter list of valid DASD units. The define was successful: IGD01007I DATACLAS SPECIFIED (PRODVSAM)

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Richards.Bob
Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Hi, I added a STORCLAS and DATACLAS parm to the define and it didn't take. I still got the required volume list missing. I modified the ACS routine to include ''' (quote quote) in the filter list of valid DASD units. The define was successful: snipped

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Dean, Now test if it will assign the correct SC without the explicit specification of the SC. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/22/2007 8:14:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: zeros are being passed to SMS in the UNIT field. They are going to track down who's doing this. I think John, said they might have closed a loophole. Everybody that chimed in has provided me with a

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Richards.Bob
Terrific! Let us know if we can be of further assistance! :-) Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
I will post an update when IBM gets back to me. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Terrific! Let us know if we can

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
When I display the base configuration I have SYSDA as the default unit. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread John Kington
Yes it did. When I removed those parms from IDCAMS and ran the define w/ '' in the filterlist for DASD units the define worked and the appropriate storclas dataclas were assigned. Dean, Great to hear that you have it working. I still suspect IBM means nulls or binary zeros when they say the

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/22/2007 8:38:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I display the base configuration I have SYSDA as the default unit. Are the volumes in the new pool included in SYSDA? Guess the easy way is HCD under EDT's.

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Chicklon, Tom
Dean, there's may be an unintended consequence to be careful of now that you added null to the list of valid unit types. If you have a job that stacks datasets on a single tape volume by using UNIT=AFF=ddname such as the following: //TAPEV01 DD DSN=SDR.BKUP.ML1001(+1),DCB=(SYS2.DSCB),

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
Yup, they are in SYSDA. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent In a message dated 8/22/2007 8:38:22 A.M. Central

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
for the tape units is no where in the logic. We just defined it in the event we might use it someday. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chicklon, Tom Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
In my shop Sysda points to ONE volume (IMO, idiotic) and my default SMS unit is Sysda. Works fine. From: Dean Montevago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 9:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Yup, they are in SYSDA

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
?? What do the rest point to ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent In my shop Sysda points

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Other esoterics point to the full range of DASD. My point was the default unit in the SMS configuration did not need to point to all of your DASD. It probably should but at least in my case it doesn't seem to be necessary. Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Chicklon, Tom
Dean, my logic was along the lines of: 1. UNIT not valid? Then SC=null (null unit IS valid here) 2. UNIT=TAPE? Then SC=null (we don't SMS manage tapes) 3. Stuff we know we don't want to manage? SC=null (multiple tests...) 4. Stuff we want to manage? Set SC=whatever (again multiple tests,

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Richards.Bob
select, when statements were trying to accomplish. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Thank you

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread Dean Montevago
Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Dean, I would recommend that you remove any dead code in your ACS routines. It isn't that difficult to add it in at the appropriate time and it removes any confusion when the routines are read by someone else. Also, I totally agree with the suggestion someone

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, I didn't forget about all of you who helped me. Thank you for the suggestions. I opened a PMR with IBM, it appears that the unit being passed to SMS is zeros. I am waiting for a slip from them. We did change the freespace and the file shrunk by 15%. I will update when I have more info. Dean

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread John Kington
Dean, I didn't forget about all of you who helped me. Thank you for the suggestions. I opened a PMR with IBM, it appears that the unit being passed to SMS is zeros. I am waiting for a slip from them. We did change Do you mean nulls instead of zeros? the freespace and the file shrunk by 15%. I

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:54:36 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: I didn't forget about all of you who helped me. Thank you for the suggestions. I opened a PMR with IBM, it appears that the unit being passed to SMS is zeros. Not surprising. If you must check the UNIT, perhaps you want to check that it

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread Dean Montevago
END -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
. From: Dean Montevago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 11:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent FILTLIST DASD_UNITS INCLUDE('3390','SYSDA','SYSALLDA

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread Dean Montevago
] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Dean, You might consider replacing (UNIT EQ DASD_UNITS)) with (DSORG EQ 'VS')) A VSAM file is obviously allocated to DASD. If a user/programmer has

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Thanks. That's a thought. But what gets me is we did the same exact thing for another VSAM file (except we used a fully qualified name) and it worked no problem. The only difference was the OS level

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread Dean Montevago
Sounds like a bug to me also. Thanks for your help. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent When

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent When something works and you change release level

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
John, Agreed, I've seen the same thing although It was long ago. My point was more in trying to stop Dean from hitting his head against a wall doing 'what worked before'. If it isn't working now, try something else. John McKown wrote When something works

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2007-08-17 08:11, Dean Montevago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to IBM-Main: I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ? Will they take affect

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-18 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
** DON'T PANIC ** take several deep breaths ... and think ... your 3.2 screen shows: Storage class . . . : PRODVSAM Organization . . . : PS Record format . . . : VB as Tom pointed out, wrong DSORG - should show up as VS (at least). from the ISMF test screen Lizette has wonderfully

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
Dean Montevago wrote: Hi, I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ? Will they take affect the next time the file is deleted/defined ?

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/17/2007 08:09:57 AM: Hi, I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ?

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Yes, the new SMS rules are only invoked at allocation. They will have no effect on an existing file. They will be invoked at delete/define. Are you going to use SMS compression on this file? In the past (last job) I reduced VSAM and sequential files by an average of 50%. This works fine as

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:09:57 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ? Will they take affect the next time the

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, Thanks for the input. The file is non-SMS right now. It is reaching the 4gb limit. I am creating a new pool for this and other VSAM datasets. We're small so there aren't that many and they all all non-SMS right now. I plan on moving them over to this pool. The compression sounds

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
folks use straight API's the ISV products I assume the same but I will have to check. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 8:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
Thanks John. Good point. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Kington Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 8:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Dean, Thanks for the input. The file is non-SMS right

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:48:00 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: The file is non-SMS right now. It is reaching the 4gb limit. I am creating a new pool for this and other VSAM datasets. We're small so there aren't that many and they all all non-SMS right now. I plan on moving them over to this pool.

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
a genuine concern - but have you checked to see if the growth was not due to bad Index CISZ ? at one site, the Indices are hardcoded to 512 in the IDCAMS statements, which caused the DATA component to grow rapidly. dataclass will take effect at dataset creation time. EF/EA datasets need to be

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
(3 2) CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(2048)) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Dean, Ravi makes an excellent point. What are the Data and Index CI sizes for this file? This is only a concern for KSDS files. I don't believe you mentioned VSAM file type. If it is other than KSDS, what is the Data CI size? You seem to have an old installation. It is not inconceivable that

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread CICS Guy
Doesn't a too small index ci size get auto-magically over-ridden by a larger size now? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ambat Ravi Nair Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Only if it is grossly underestimated. It is possible to lose DATA CI space due to a too small Indec CI size. Mainstar's Catalog Recovery Plus has a Map command that reports on this. Doesn't a too small index ci size get auto-magically over-ridden by a larger

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
a file. If you are having space usage problems it might be worth looking into. From: Dean Montevago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 8/17/2007 10:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent No flames please, is this is archaic. It's

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated successfully. I tried to IDCAMS the test VSAM file (KSDS) with no VOL parameter.

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated successfully. I tried to IDCAMS the test VSAM file (KSDS) with no VOL

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Brian, SNIP You might want to increase the BUFFERSPACE(55296) to BUFFERSPACE(849920) This will definitely improve sequential preformance as well as loading vitually all of your Index set into memory during direct processing. SNIP Usually defining the ACCESS BIAS as SYSTEM would

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Jack Kelly
and that the volume has been init'd as an SMS volume Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated successfully

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
: SMS Question - Urgent 08/17/2007 11:13 AM

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have sometimes seen the VOL parm setup in an IDCAMS as VOL(*). Lizette OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
I just did a 3.2 allocate Data Set Name . . . . : REFPROD.REF.DNO General Data Current Allocation Management class . . :

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- No flames please, is this is archaic. It's been like this for years. DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME(REFPROD.REFMSTR) RECORDSIZE(6000 6000) FREESPACE(33 33)

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Did you get anything in the sysout besides the IEC614I CREATE FAILED? -Original Message- From: Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:15 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: SMS Question - Urgent FILTLIST

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
IDC3020I UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE ON USER VOLUME IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 68 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLEW-192 IDC3003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
-Original Message- From: Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:15 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: SMS Question - Urgent FILTLIST PRODVSAM INCLUDE(REFPROD.REF.DNO.**) also tried ('REFPROD.REF.DNO

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent -Original Message- From: Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 12:15 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
My stuff is pretty basic: PROC DATACLAS /*/ /**DEFINE DASD UNIT NAMES

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, FILTLIST DASD_UNITS INCLUDE('3390','SYSDA','SYSALLDA') Add '' to your DASD_UNITS filter list. This will cover the case when no unit= value or null is being passed into your ACS routines. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, FILTLIST PRODVSAM INCLUDE(REFPROD.REF.DNO.**) also tried ('REFPROD.REF.DNO') WHEN ((DSN EQ PRODVSAM) AND (UNIT EQ DASD_UNITS)) DO SET STORCLAS EQ 'PRODVSAM' WRITE 'STORCLAS SPECIFIED (' STORCLAS ')' EXIT END Can you post the FILTLIST for

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent IDC3020I UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE ON USER VOLUME

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
CREATE FAILED with code/message SMS-managed volumes specified for non-SMS request. Dean, I think John's put the finger on the sore spot ... what DATACLAS and/or MGMTCLAS are you assigning to this VSAM dataset so that it will become a valid SMS-managed VSAM dataset? HTH Ulrich Correction ...

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Bob, Question: I'm not an SMS expert but is this necessary: WRITE 'DATACLAS SPECIFIED (' DATACLAS ')' Dean is trying to leave bread crumbs so that he can see where the path he is taking. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Pelletier
Question: I'm not an SMS expert but is this necessary: WRITE 'DATACLAS SPECIFIED (' DATACLAS ')' Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Ct. My stuff is pretty basic: PROC DATACLAS /*/ /**

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ulrich Krueger
:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Question: I'm not an SMS expert but is this necessary: WRITE 'DATACLAS SPECIFIED (' DATACLAS ')' Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Ct. My stuff is pretty basic: PROC DATACLAS snipped WHEN ((DSN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:57:17 -0700, Ulrich Krueger wrote: ... what DATACLAS and/or MGMTCLAS are you assigning to this VSAM dataset so that it will become a valid SMS-managed VSAM dataset? Correction ... I meant to ask about STORCLAS and MGMGCLAS definitions. MGMTCLAS ACS routine is

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:01:11 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried the TEST facility in ISMF? Or do you have SMSDEBUG from DTS? Both could help identify your problem. Starting in z/OS 1.7 there is a SETSMS VOLSELMSG command that can be used to help diagnose

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/17/2007 2:02:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They both go down the same path, right ? Well they should, but are not. Can't think of any reason unless VVDS is hosed. Guess I'd start with DEVSER ===DS QD,ucb,1,validate then EXAMINE

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Have you tried the TEST facility in ISMF? Or do you have SMSDEBUG from DTS? Both could help identify your problem. Lizette MGMTCLAS ACS routine is irrelevant. It doesn't get invoked until after a STORCLAS is assigned by the STORCLAS ACS routine. The test for DASD_UNITS could be stopping

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
don't know how, and don't know -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent Have you tried the TEST facility in ISMF

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Dean Montevago
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent In a message dated 8/17/2007 1:24:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might want to sprinkle some WRITE statements in the ACS routine to show you where you've been. I's just thinking does this thing have VVDS

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, VVDS's are defined. Did the sprinkle. In 3.2 I can allocate, batch is where I have the issue. They both go down the same path, right ? You could add a WRITE statement to show what the UNIT variable contains. Regards, John

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/17/2007 1:24:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might want to sprinkle some WRITE statements in the ACS routine to show you where you've been. I's just thinking does this thing have VVDS at all? Guess if we list the VTOC it should show

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
To use ISMF TEST you go to Option 7.4. Select one of the following Options: 1. DEFINE - Define an ACS Test Case 2. ALTER

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Richards.Bob
Dean, Can you post your storage class routine? Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question - Urgent VVDS's

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:02:40 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote: VVDS's are defined. Did the sprinkle. In 3.2 I can allocate, batch is where I have the issue. They both go down the same path, right ? In 3.2 you create a non-VSAM data set, and a unit is specified by TSO ALLOCATE by default. The batch

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread Ron Hawkins
Dean, Bob has a good point. You can't be SMS managed unless a STORCLAS is assigned. The way I read the IDC3009I massage is that SMS managed volumes are specified for a dataset that is not SMS eligible (i.e. Does not have a STORCLAS). I'd give up trying to diagnose you DATACLAS routines for now