-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ISPF Backup Files
Also look at prior discussion on this list for "ispf edit recovery" from May 2007: For z/OS 1.4 and beyond, saving changes from an edit session (with explicit SAVE) appears to break the edit-recovery relationship with the backup dataset, but the backup dataset itself doesn't get deleted until you exit normally from EDIT. If your TSO/ISPF session terminates abnormally (like a timeout) while EDIT is in this state, the backup dataset is not deleted and becomes orphaned. My understanding was that an APAR has been taken to address this. Tom Conley references this as OA23202 (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg63271.html ), but the description of that APAR (closed SUG) doesn't fit. Perhaps the undocumented OA23616 is the correct APAR for this problem. This problem may have predated z/OS 1.4, but perhaps would not have been apparent until a change in the naming conventions for backup datasets was made circa z/OS 1.4 that made re-use of a prior recovery dataset unlikely. JC Ewing <SNIP> Interesting. Our sysprog started looking at this when I told him about it. And it seems that all the developers here have this problem -- and we don't click the little "x" in the upper right corner (a la Dave Andrews ;-) ). We don't run into a lot of time-outs, but some do run multiple split sessions w/in ISPF. I generally don't run more than the normal 2. So far nothing common here except ISPF edit. And we can't pin this down to a "just the z/OS 1.x" LPAR causes this (again we have 1.7-1.9 active at this point). So I guess we have to wait for the one APAR to be documented. Regards, Steve Thompson -- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
