Your plan is good. Here is another idea for you. Take a random sample of the records you suspect. Pick one or two and discover the root technical cause. Avoid speculation and choose your words carefully (see below). Keep an open mind.
Pick a few more and do the same thing. By now you should have a good idea what the problem is, and can craft some statistical studies to see if you are on the right path. Once you do that, craft some report jobs that prove the issue beyond any reasonable shadow of a doubt. I smell the foul stench of an auditor making security decisions and setting policy. But it is too early to tell. As another very correctly posted, it could be a malfunctioning program. But your unenviable, thankless, daunting task could be to inform management that they made a very expensive mistake. That is *never* a good career move. Keep that in mind as you raise alarms and report your findings to your management. Play this right, and hero status awaits. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Need ideas - IRADU00 output very large. Last week, we produced 35,746,835 output records for the reformatted RACF (IRRADU00 output). This blew our processing. The previous week was only 7,555,827 records. Two weeks ago only 4,896,905 records. And three weeks ago, only 2,470,655 records. Of course, the question is "what happened?!?" I'm trying to process this information using SAS. So far in about 3 wall clock hours, I've read 5 of the 21 input tapes (virtual 3490E - MEDIA2). My SAS output dataset, so far, is 250,500 tracks and 166 extents on 11 of 30 possible output DASD volumes, and still growing. NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
