Is it possible that the COBOL program is not closing the file and therefore any additional extents are not reflected in the VTOC / Catalog entry?
George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: DFSORT anomaly? Hi all, WE are running z/OS 1.6 with no plans to upgrade because we aren't going to fork out any more for Tivoli 8.3. We also have Enterprise COBOL. This is the problem... The file was allocated Cyl,(15,5) and 160000 records written to it by the COBOL program, it thus expanded to 3 volumes and lots of extents... In the same job, this file was sorted, but only 45900 records were sorted, into itself, and the rest of the records were lost. We have tried to re-create the problem by creating the multivolume file with IEBGENER... unsuccessfully... My thinking is this, and I have not found a MVS APAR stating that this might be the case, but here goes... Because of some problem / limitation in the COBOL / MVS File close routines... All three extents of the file are not known to DFSORT 3 steps lower and only at the actual end of the job, but how do I prove this. This occurred 3 times now, until we changed the allocation to Cyl,(200,50) and end up with the file on 1 volume, problem sorted? Any ideas, Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Herbie Elavon Financial Services Limited Registered in Ireland: Number 418442 Registered Office: Block E, 1st Floor, Cherrywood Business Park, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland Directors: Robert Abele (USA), John Collins, Terrance Dolan (USA), Pamela Joseph (USA), Declan Lynch, John McNally, Malcolm Towlson Elavon Financial Services Limited, trading as Elavon, is regulated by the Financial Regulator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
