I believe that the way you described the backup datasets is the way it works. If your TSO session times out, and you're in the middle of an edit session, when you next do an ISPF edit, you get a message saying you were editing such and such, and have the option to resume. If you resume your edit, and then exit normally, the dataset goes away. At least thats the way it worked in the past, with z/OS 1.2.
Eric ---- "Thompson wrote: > I was going through all the files associated with one of my TSO IDs and > I found a number of ISPF Backup datasets that have been archived. > > How or why would these get orphaned (if they have been archived, I > consider them orphaned)? The format of the names is: > userid.ISRnnnnn.BACKUP which matches the format for current edit backup > datasets (I'm currently editing source and one of the backups won't let > me look at it, because it is in use). > > I have recalled the orphaned ones and I can look in them. I can see some > of them are for source that I have updated (and there are 2-3 backups > for a member), and ultimately promoted. > > It would seem to me that should I have lost a TSO session through > timeout or session lost or some such, that the next time I went into > edit I should have been prompted for edit recovery and then these files > should have gone away upon successful termination of the edit session. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Aviva USA Des Moines, Iowa 515-645-5153 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
