Chances are you've already got this solved (I had a backlog of IBM-Main
digests so didn't notice this till today), but just in case you haven't,
ask your vendor about fix T59C109. That was generated to solve an issue
at our shop where spool files were randomly disappearing (and we
couldn't reproduce it in test for a long time, so load was also a
factor).
Also, my coworker tracked the issue down to a product calling the JES2
SAPI code with the wrong parameters. Since the SAPI doesn't generate
messages when it deletes a specific spool file, it took a while to find
the culprit. To prevent this from happening in the future, my coworker
wrote a series of exits that determine when output is being deleted and
who's doing it. If you want a copy of those exits, drop Steve McColley
an email at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I swear he said it was okay for me to give out his email! Hope this
helps...
Shannon Collinson
SunTrust Bank
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Nitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:24 AM
Subject: Disappearing JES2 output
My colleague has a batch job (TSO, calling a REXX) that puts the result
into systsprt:
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=H,LRECL=256,RECFM=V,DEST=R720
That printer destination is CMA Spool, these days called ESF. (I am not
a printer person, either.)
He noticed that *some* of the output 'disappears', i.e. it does get
deleted by JES2 ($HASP250 is issued), BUT the output does not appear in
ESF. Unfortunately, the problem is not reproducible at will, rather it
seems to be load-related:
The job is submitted on system 3 to execute on system 3. ESF resides on
system number2 and watches the same Spool/MAS (same sysplex). HASP250
for the 'missing' output is issued on system number 6, while the
correctly in ESF arriving output gets hasp250 on system2, where ESF was
reading it. In addition, ESF would output a message stating that the
output arrived (ESF766), but we don't see that for the 'missing' output.
Does anyone have an idea what to look for? (Given that the problem is
not readily reproducible, appears to be load related *and* the output
disappears, we are currently reluctant to open an ETR with IBM...)
Best regards, Barbara
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