Gil, I know that you're not in charge of the systems, but have you looked at the DFSMShsm patch that converts interactive recalls to no wait?
PATCH .MCVT.+52 BITS(..1.....) /* ALTER TAPE RECALLS TO NOT WAIT */ According to the diagnosis manual, When set to 1, intercept driven tape recalls for interactive TSO users will be converted to NOWAIT requests. I just recalled 3 datasets via 3.4 browse. On the first one, I got ARC1020I DFSMSHSM IS RECALLING FROM TAPE DSN=MVS.RRP.MQSERIES.PGMDIR, PLEASE RETRY THE USER REQUEST AFTER THE RECALL HAS COMPLETED. And my 3.4 screen came back immediately. I had to browse each one and wade through all of the above commands, but at least I didn't have to wait for each dataset to get RECALLed individually. It ain't a perfect solution, but it's much faster than waiting for tape mounts - especially when the operator is asleep at the console... Rex Also, I believe the answer to your question of <snip> Does Batch Allocation perform the HSM recalls for a step concurrently or serially? </snip> is that batch allocation will perform the recalls concurrently. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IEFBR14 (was: EXEC Above the Bar) On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:24:19 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: >I for one look forward to jobs which now take hours taking just a few minutes >once we get to 1.11. > Hours? I'm surprised that while you were waiting hours for one of those jobs to complete you didn't take the opportunity to recode it to use HDELETE directly, or IKJEFT01 DELETE, which would have likewise reduced the time to minutes. Does Batch Allocation perform the HSM recalls for a step concurrently or serially? It's irritating when in ISPF DSLIST I select an action on several data sets, failing to notice that they're migrated, and wait in sequence for each to recall. I wish it would recall all concurrently, in background. Even more annoying, once it displays one, "=X" on the command line doesn't take me back to TSO READY prompt; it just goes on to recall the next data set. I split the screen and cancelled myself from SDSF. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
