Okay, 3 for 3 (the vendor suggested the same) the easiest way to fix it is with the LOCK dataset.
Thanks, George Rodriguez :-) Specialist, Systems Programmer Network & Technical Services (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobil) School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B-332 West Palm Beach, FL. 33406-5869 Florida's Only A-Rated Urban District For Five Consecutive Years -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 2 Identical STC Running at the Same Time MVS allows 2 identical named tasks to run. The best way to have only 1 is to use a lock data set. //LOCK DD DSN=appl.task.LOCK,DISP=(MOD,DETETE,DELETE),SPACE=(1,TRK),UNIT=SYSDA This will allow the first to run and others to queue up waiting on data set. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of George Rodriguez > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: 2 Identical STC Running at the Same Time > > Hi Listeners, > > > > I need your help...I have a product from Informatica, called Power > Exchange. There are 4 STCs that run all the time, the exception to this > rule, is when backups are being done I shutdown one of the STC. The > STCs > are called: > > > > DTLA - Agent > > DTLLSTNR - Listener > > DTLL - Logger > > DTLCOND - Condenser > > > > The duplicate STC happens to be the DTLL (but it could also be DTLCOND) > and it causes all kinds of problems when 2 of them are running. Is > there > any way of preventing the second STC from running? > > > > TIA. . . > > > > George Rodriguez > > Specialist, Systems Programmer > > Network & Technical Services > > (561) 357-7652 (office) > > (561) 707-3496 (mobil) > > School District of Palm Beach County > > 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. > > Room B-332 > > West Palm Beach, FL. 33406-5869 > > Florida's Only A-Rated Urban District For Five Consecutive Years > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > --------------Palm Beach County Schools--------------------- > > Rated "A" by the Florida Department of Education 2005-2009 > > -----Home of Florida's first LEED Gold Certified School----- > -----------http://www.palmbeachschools.org------------- > > The District of Palm Beach County is an Equal Education Opportunity > Provider and Employer. Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are > public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in > response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail > to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in > writing. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

