Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg At 07:56 -0600 on 09/15/2009, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote about Re: file integrity verified - do I care?: That depends on how important data integrity is to you. 97 indicates that the last

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Sep 2009 07:24:11 -0700, jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) wrote: I can conceive of a case where you might want to distinguish between 97 and 00, but don't know of any programs in our shop doing that. It might make sense if the failure was because of a known ABEND of a re-runnable batch

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 09/16/2009 05:45 PM, Clark Morris wrote: On 16 Sep 2009 10:53:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In al5va59bn9hkub0dhg8n0sdds61le2j...@4ax.com, on 09/15/2009 at 07:31 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: What am I missing? The possibility that the application

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-20 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 07:56 -0600 on 09/15/2009, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote about Re: file integrity verified - do I care?: That depends on how important data integrity is to you. 97 indicates that the last user of the file did not close it properly. The mechanics of the file (index/CI/CA) structure is valid

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I have a question. If I have a file that gets a 97 when opened, is its status/contents at that point the same as if I had first done a IDCAMS VERIFY (and thus get a 00 at open)? IOW: Does letting OPEN generate a 97 due to the IMPLICATE VERIFY generate a different end result as doing an

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In al5va59bn9hkub0dhg8n0sdds61le2j...@4ax.com, on 09/15/2009 at 07:31 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: What am I missing? The possibility that the application that failed to close the file might have had updates it hadn't written out. The fact that file integrity doesn't mean

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-16 Thread Clark Morris
On 16 Sep 2009 10:53:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In al5va59bn9hkub0dhg8n0sdds61le2j...@4ax.com, on 09/15/2009 at 07:31 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: What am I missing? The possibility that the application that failed to close the file might have had

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Howard Brazee
On 14 Sep 2009 15:06:20 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97 than when you get a 00? Depending on the application, I might put out a message saying to reconstruct from logs. Reconstruct what?

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
-Original Message- So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97 than when you get a 00? Depending on the application, I might put out a message saying to reconstruct from logs. Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was successful

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Howard Brazee
On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis , N-GHG) wrote: Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was successful and file integrity was verified. So the file is OK, the open is OK. What am I missing? That depends on how important data

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:43:31 -0600 Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote: :On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis , :N-GHG) wrote: : Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was : successful and file integrity was verified. So the file is

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Steve Comstock
Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:43:31 -0600 Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote: :On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis , :N-GHG) wrote: : Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was : successful and file integrity was

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Erik Janssen
We also have 'problems' with the filestatus 97, especiallly in DR. I ended up verifying all VSAM datasets with ISMF (it allows for cluster only selection which is nice if you want to fire a verify ds(/) ) The whole idea of giving a filestatus 97 is in my view pointless since any subsequent

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Wait a minute. Before the data is firmed? What do you mean? How does this happen? Unflushed buffers? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:08:51 -0600 Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: :Binyamin Dissen wrote: : On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:43:31 -0600 Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu : wrote: : :On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis , : :N-GHG) wrote: : :

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-15 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 9/15/2009 at 9:21 AM, in message listserv%200909151021029017.0...@bama.ua.edu, Erik Janssen erik.jans...@ing.nl wrote: We also have 'problems' with the filestatus 97, especiallly in DR. I ended up verifying all VSAM datasets with ISMF (it allows for cluster only selection which is nice

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In jhkka59q0bavje123mfp9mp5cgdnmhm...@4ax.com, on 09/11/2009 at 07:37 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97 than when you get a 00? Depending on the application, I might put out a message saying to reconstruct from

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4aa0113f.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 09/03/2009 at 06:55 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said: Certain classes of I-O status values indicate fatal exception conditions. These are: any that begin with the digit 3 or 4, and any that begin with the digit 9 that the

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 85ce438477b040f1aa47a93d19a78...@wmk, on 09/04/2009 at 04:43 PM, Bill Klein wmkl...@ix.netcom.com said: (Obviously, run-time would have the advantage of no recompile required while compile-time would have the advantage of NOT impacting existing programs - without an explicit selection of

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-11 Thread Howard Brazee
On 11 Sep 2009 04:50:03 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: So since 97 doesn't seem to be useful What it seems to you may not be what it seems to others. It certainly seems useful to me. So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97 than

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:19:56 -0600, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: On 9/4/2009 at 7:06 PM, in message 6ee7eb97db511b45b13630c3361751930141a...@cmbfisltc08.fnfis.com, Savor, Tom tom.sa...@fnis.com wrote: For any (all) of you who dislike the file status 97 - especially

Status code 97 Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-05 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 9/4/2009 at 6:01 PM, in message It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone with their management's full backing filed an APAR and a protest to ISO and ANSI claiming that the status code 97 in fact makes IBM COBOL non-compliant. I THINK this travesty came in with the

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-05 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 9/4/2009 at 7:06 PM, in message 6ee7eb97db511b45b13630c3361751930141a...@cmbfisltc08.fnfis.com, Savor, Tom tom.sa...@fnis.com wrote: For any (all) of you who dislike the file status 97 - especially anyone involved in a VSE to MVS conversion (where this seems to be a medium-high priority

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-05 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 9/5/2009 at 7:57 AM, in message listserv%200909050857588007.0...@bama.ua.edu, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 07:19:56 -0600, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: On 9/4/2009 at 7:06 PM, in message

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Yes, it was very aggravating when status code of 97 appeared on the landscape. But, to be honest with you, all of our I/O routines are coded to treat 00 and 97 the same. So for IBM to remove 97 as a status code will no real effect. That's fine for long-time MVS (aka z/OS) shops. But, the OP's

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-05 Thread Clark Morris
On 4 Sep 2009 18:08:29 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: For any (all) of you who dislike the file status 97 - especially anyone involved in a VSE to MVS conversion (where this seems to be a medium-high priority problem), please consider submitting a Marketing Request to IBM and

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Friday 04 September 2009 02:57, Frank Swarbrick wrote: ... this file status of 97 is the same as status 00, except that status 97 indicates that not only was the file opened successfully but an implicit VERIFY was also completed successfully. IIRC, the STATUS 97 problem dates back to

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Clark Morris
On 3 Sep 2009 18:40:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: let's take some possibilities. 1. the verify succeeds - there are no hanging end of file or paritial splits or fatal errors. wha happened to the blocks that had not been written to dasd yet - well, they are gone into the bit

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Howard Brazee
We had a vendor supplied I/O program that was used all over the place - which did not check for status '97', but when the status returned was not '0x', returned its own error status. It was used way too often to go through the costs of tests (this is before OO changed testing standards), so we

file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Bill Klein
previous comments in this thread snipped For any (all) of you who dislike the file status 97 - especially anyone involved in a VSE to MVS conversion (where this seems to be a medium-high priority problem), please consider submitting a Marketing Request to IBM and reference the existing SHARE

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Thanks Bill!!! I'm going to start typing right now. :-) Frank On 9/4/2009 at 3:43 PM, in message 85ce438477b040f1aa47a93d19a78...@wmk, Bill Klein wmkl...@ix.netcom.com wrote: previous comments in this thread snipped For any (all) of you who dislike the file status 97 - especially anyone

Status code 97 Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Clark Morris
On 4 Sep 2009 14:46:20 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: previous comments in this thread snipped For any (all) of you who dislike the file status 97 - especially anyone involved in a VSE to MVS conversion (where this seems to be a medium-high priority problem), please consider

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Savor, Tom
For any (all) of you who dislike the file status 97 - especially anyone involved in a VSE to MVS conversion (where this seems to be a medium-high priority problem), please consider submitting a Marketing Request to IBM and reference the existing SHARE requirement: SSLNGC0413615 Optional (ISO

file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-03 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Warning: This is another one of my bitchy messages complaining about things that people have been getting along with for many years. You have been warned, so please don't complain back to me if you think I'm concerned over nothing. Just don't read the rest of the message if this bothers you.

Re: file integrity verified - do I care?

2009-09-03 Thread Mike Bell
let's take some possibilities. 1. the verify succeeds - there are no hanging end of file or paritial splits or fatal errors. wha happened to the blocks that had not been written to dasd yet - well, they are gone into the bit bucket in the sky. 2. the verify succeeds - and operations is rerunning