"Robert A. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > At 07:36 -0500 on 07/06/2005, Chase, John wrote about Re: IBM VSAM > Statistics are often Bogus: > > >The fact remains that CEMT P SHUT I causes an ABNORMAL termination of CICS, > >as would the MVS CANCEL or FORCE command. The fact also remains that on a > >commanded ABNORMAL termination of (anything), VSAM cannot update the dataset > >statistics because the issuer of the command has INTENTIONALLY prevented it > >from doing so. > > Since CEMT P SHUT I causes a CONTROLLED issuance of an Abnormal > Termination, there is no reason why a request to flush the statistics > BEFORE doing the Abnormal Termination can't be done.
Since once the ABEND is issued it's too late, it would be up to the application (i.e. CICS) to "flush" the statistics by closing the files before the ABEND is issued. However most people use immediate shutdown because they don't WANT to wait for the files to get closed normally. Their choice. 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
