To avoid the pointless and time-consuming effort to compress each full PTSn, put them in the RETRY EXCLUDE list. You'll still get an x37 message for each full one, but SMP/E will immediately move to the one next in sequence without trying to compress. After a mass ACCEPT, compress them all manually.
Better still is to use PDSE. . . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 12/15/2005 01:12:53 PM: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind > > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:06 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Extent SMPPTS Question > > > > > > I'm getting E37's when receiving new sysmods from tape into > > the system. > > > > I added 2 DDDF's to the SMP structure and allocated the > > datasets on two seperate volumes and when I run the job to > > recieve the sysmods I'm still running out of room. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > How do concatnate the two new datasets on new volumes to > > the SMPPTS file. > > > > Hope I got this right. Thanks. > > > > You should have a DDDEF for SMPPTS (original DSN), SMPPTS1 (second DSN), > and SMPPTS2 (third DSN). SMP/E will try SMPPTS, if it fails due to out > of space, it will compress and retry. If the retry fails, it will try > SMPPTS1 and do the same series. If SMPPTS1 fails, it will try SMPPT2. > > Personally, I would make the SMPPTS datasets PDSEs not PDSes. The reason > is that SMP/E is smart enough to know that you cannot compress a PDSE, > so it will not even try. It will just try the next SMPPTSn dataset. > > As always, a PDS cannot span multiple volumes. You must use the SMPPTSn > dd names, in the correct order. If you "skip" one, then SMP/E will not > detect the "next" ones. > > -- > John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
