In a message dated 7/6/2005 2:51:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most of the VSAM control blocks are in user key. If these have been overlaid or incorrectly modified, writing this data to the catalog may BREAK THE DATA SET. The effects of breaking the data set are much worse than "throwing away" the data and verifying the data set on the next open. No one wants an online application to have to recover a major data set and be down for hours because it was broken closing it during an ABEND because data was overlaid. A Devil's Advocate might be tempted to say just because you don't ABEND does not mean that a user did not overlay or incorrectly modify VSAM control blocks that are in user key. How can you ever trust the stats? Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
