> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron and Jenny Hawkins
>
> Tom, et al,
>
> I was just thinking... CICS aside, when a job ABENDS while
> updating a KSDS file, what is the most common thing that
> happens to allow the job to be rerun? Delete and restore the
> KSDS, right? So what good are the accumulated statistics at
> this point - valid or invalid? Well there worth zilcho,
> because they were just deleted. Gone forever.
>
> And the next day someone takes a LISTCAT of that file and
> makes some decision based on those stats, assuming that it
> represents 24 hours of activity, when it is really just the
> last 20 minutes of the batch run. Smart move!
>
> I would rather we just got rid of all the stats from LISTCAT.
> We don't have a listdb2, listdl1, listfastpath or listqsam,
> so why the religious fervour around LISTC stats?
"Hysterical" reasons. :-)
With today's DASD being almost completely virtualized, it would seem that
the only relevant stats are space used (i.e., number of records,
HARBA/HURBA, and for KSDSes number of index levels and records). For most
application-oriented intents and purposes, the other stats are little more
than "tourist info".
-jc-
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