Hi Joe, In response to your posting this morning:
> Thanks guys. I used VSAM Manager before it was part of CatRec+ and > Installed CatRec+ (way better than Catsol imho) at a previous site. I'll > have a look at the CBT but am actually pleased that there's no easy fix. > I was half expecting someone to point me to a new IDCAMS keyword (it's > been 3 years since I last got my hands dirty). Looks like an email to Ron > for a trial period. I'm always interested in helping tune a "troublesome file", by providing a free short-term copy of our VSAM KSDS mapping program. As you mentioned, the MAP facility is from a Mainstar program called VSAM Manager, which we have also incorporated into Catalog RecoveryPlus (CR+). MAP does indeed show you the "insides" of any KSDS, including an ICF catalog BCS, so that you can "see" exactly what's going on with it from the standpoint of record insertion activity. This helps identify better reorg frequencies (which are usually too frequent), where and why CI/CA splits are occurring, illustrates "dead CIs" due to a bad index CI size, too little or too much FREESPACE, and many other KSDS definition errors. I'm more than happy to ship a copy of VSAM Manager to you, at no cost, and then help you analyze the file in question. Respond back to me with an offline e-mail and we can discuss this further. Best regards, Ron Ferguson CR+ Product Architect Mainstar Software Corporation www.mainstar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
