"Dave Juraschek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > ... CICS "close immediate" situation > > This really is a red herring. > > The CICS CEMT PERFORM SHUT IMMEDIATE is completely IBM code. This is an > example of where this is absolutely not a user/application/customer problem. > > If it is violating some IBM VSAM file rule, it's still an IBM problem and > one would think that the IBM VSAM folks would have asked the IBM CICS folks > to play by their restrictive rules years and years and years ago - > especially, if this is a primary cause of the statistics corruption as Mark > claims.
CICS distributes a program that can be tailored by the installation to determine whether an application is waiting for an I/O to complete, or just sitting idle. CICS does not attempt to terminate a transaction that is performing I/O and uses a wait timer (I believe also specified by the installation) on how long to wait before deciding to terminate the transaction on an immediate shutdown. The solution is there for the customer - they just have to make use of it. Almost nobody has. It's called "options"... Thanks, Mark Thomen Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
