Shane wrote on 09/08/2005 08:10:42 AM: > Where's Bob Wright when you need him ???.
In this case he's received no more information than the others who follow IBM-MAIN and who made as good suggestions for the next stage of diagnosis as I could make. There's too little information so far to diagnose the problem - only to speculate. Looking at the first part of the data set that made it through the various transcription steps has been suggested and is likely to yield a "translated to ASCII and incompletely back" result that means the copy is no longer a faithful representation of the dumped environment. IPCS doesn't say that as clearly as you and I might wish because we've adhered to the design goal that everything be able to run in batch where no friendly chats can take place. Dump initialization started off based on the premise that RECFM=FBS,LRECL=4160 implied an unformatted dump, and, after taking a look at a few records that disappointed, dump initialization could have paused and said that, asking whether proceeding to initialize as just an ordinary data set was wanted. What was done was to make the assumption that making the dump viewable as an ordinary data set would be useful. I hope that turns out to be the case. I'd also welcome suggested message text that IPCS could put out in the batch initialization environment saying what needs to be said effectively to an individual who is usually a new or novice IPCS user. System test and level 2 support folks with whom I deal daily don't have these problems nor do most of the regulars on IBM-MAIN. Bob Wright - z/OS MVS Service Aids ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
