On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:25:25 -0400, Knutson, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (office) 301.986.3574
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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.
>
Hi Sam,
It is worth mentioning and we also have ThruPut manager here. As a matter
of fact, we've used it before to do similar things. I just didn't
think about that option. My group maintains the code and the "primary"
maintainer sits right next to me.
Thanks for the idea.
Regards,
Mark
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