Patrick, The I hazard a guess that Connect Direct is seeing the failed allocation and restarting the transmission. One way to confirm that is to see if the "loop" is generating cycles at both ends.
Have pleasant vacation. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] STOPX37 & SMS loop > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:48:01 -0700, Ron Hawkins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Patrick, > > > >From past experience with Stop-X37 and ACC/SRS, it is not actually in > a > >loop. The rule is doing exactly what it has been instructed to do, > which is > >to reduce the size of the Primary Extent and then redrive allocation. > >... > > That may be the case, but one time when nobody was observant the > behavior went on for many hours. We've never see a graceful > recovery except when the people at the remote end killed the C:D > process. The fact that killing the process there stopped the "loop" > locally seems to indicate the C:D must have been driving the loop. > If it were strictly between Stop-X37 and SMS I doubt killing the > process at the remote end wouldn't have helped. > > We were poised to do some major diagnostic work and (of course) > the problem disappeared. And now the business partner may have > changed there allocation parms. > > At any rate, I'm starting a 2 week vacation tomorrow so it will be > someone else's problem. :-) > > Pat O'Keefe > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
