Hi,
It's worth mentioning I had a similar need lately. We "upgraded" from
CA-11 2.x to 3.x and so the repository for job data is now a DATACOM
database rather than a PDS. It was decided (not by me) that we had to get
rid of the data set which was previously the CMT PDS. I suggested life
would be easier if kept it around empty for a few years but that is not what
we want to do so...
I wound up adding a small piece of Thruput Manager DAL to write a warning
message every time it was observed in JCL. This data set is no longer
opened or used by the current release so SMF was not an option. If I had to
put this in an update in JES2 exit 6 it would have taken longer but it would
have worked. This is not bullet proof for all cases since anything you
could sensibly dynamically allocate would not be seen. This particular
utility is used in batch alone so I have not worried about anything other
than batch allocations.
In Thruput Manager base DAL routine
MSGDEF MSG37 ('GEICOTM37W ',$JOBNAME,' SYS1.RMSCMT USED NEED TO REMOVE')
EVALUATE RMSCMT ($DSNAME(SYS1.RMSCMT))
....
/* Still using old CA-11 CMT ? */
IF (RMSCMT)
WTO MSG37
WTU MSG37
ENDIF
We have been notifying everyone for a while this data set would go away and
this allowed us to observe anyone still allocating it and notify them
individually. Some folks won't change jobs till they start to JCL ERROR but
I made a good effort to prevent an impact to anyone's productivity.
There are other tools that provide this type of JCL screening so if you have
this type of problem it is worth doing an inventory of your tools at hand to
see if you have a vendor product that might help even if you don't normally
employ it this way.
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Performance and Availability Management
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SMF wasn't a help because the data set wasn't opened, just allocated in
STEPLIB. I've often wanted an SMF record just for allocation of a data set.
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