Tioia, Since you have said that you are new to this and asked for help, let me offer a few cautions first. Be careful that your testing does not impact any production processes. Work in a sandbox or test lpar if you can. Defininately communicate with the sysprog who is responsible for JES in your shop. Get their support for what you are doing. Be aware that some shops (mine included) make daily use of OFFLOAD for required processes. Find out what those are and how they work. You will need to steer clear of them and the OFFLOAD devices defined to support them. You will also be able to learn from reviewing these processes.
I strongly recommend that you save and review your syslog messages. At some point, you will pick up something in the OFFLOAD that you didn't mean to and you will need to put it back on the spool. And if something 'disappears' from spool, you will want to be able to prove it wasn't you. I know of no way to reset the output indicators. I would recommend that you create a test job(s) to practice with and add the jobname filter to you offload setup. When you set up your offload settings, remember that the settings tell the offload 'what' to do, but the WS criteria tell it 'whether to care'. Review those setting carefully, there is a great deal of selectivity available, but if your general settings and your work selection (WS) criteria don't match, you won't get the results you expect. There are some fine manuals, you might start with JES Commands and JES Init and Tuning. Linda Mooney -------------- Original message -------------- From: "SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN M. Ioia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hope someone can help me, I'm new to SPOOL OFFLOAD processing and have > been experimenting a little for my education. > > I tried offloading some spool using defined transmitters and I set DISP=KEEP > so as not to disrupt anything while I am experimenting. > > I am offloading to DASD and wanted to try different scenarios of selective > offloads. > > What I discovered is that even with DISP=KEEP, I cannot re-offload the same > spool output once it has been offloaded. I even delete/reallocated the DASD > offload dataset, but I still cannot reselect the same output. > > Here is the question, Is there a way to reset the indicator that JES2 knows > about that indicates the spool dataset was offloaded? I want to be able to > repeat my experiments but it appears that once a dataset is offloaded, I > cant > get it to offload again. > > I looked at the ARCHIVE=ONE|ALL option. But it appears that it is useless in > my situation where I want to offload to the same transmitter. This option > just > restricts re-offload, either to the same device or to all devices. > > I guess I could define another offload device that has not been restricted, > but > I'm not sure I can define another OFFLOAD dynamically. > > Help! > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
