Thanks John. I appreciate it. We are working a PMR with IBM Netview support.
We're going to run a getmain/freemain trace specifically of SP0 below the line
to see if we can see a pattern. We've been somewhat "guessing" at the culprit
based on the eye catchers we see in that subpool from the dumps.
Your suggestion is good. I also have asked IBM, but have gotten no response
yet about the difference in syntax calling IDCAMS like this:
000314 /* */
000315 /* The IDCAMS statement calls IDCAMS using the 2 DD names listed */
000316 /* after the command as SYSIN and SYSPRINT */
000317 /* */
000318 IDCAMS Infile Outfile
000319 Say "IDCAMS RC for File Rename = " RC
Or from this Netview Sample. I get the entire PIPE portion of all this, but my
question is specifically calling idcams as NETV MOE DSIVSMX IDCAMS
SAY 'Attempting to define the VSAM file....'basename
k.0 = 14
k.1 = ' DEFINE CLUSTER -'
k.2 = ' (NAME ('basename') -'
k.3 = ' INDEXED -'
k.4 = ' KEYS('key_size RKP') -'
k.5 = ' SHAREOPTIONS('shr1 shr2') -'
k.6 = ' RECORDSIZE('avg_recsize max_recsize') -'
k.7 = ' VOLUMES(CPDLB2) -'
k.8 = ' NOREUSE ) -'
k.9 = ' DATA -'
k.10 = ' (NAME ('basename'.DATA) -'
k.11 = ' CYLINDERS('data_size') ) -'
k.12 = ' INDEX -'
k.13 = ' (NAME ('basename'.INDEX) -'
k.14 = ' CYLINDERS('index_size') )'
'PIPE STEM k.|COLLECT|NETV MOE DSIVSMX IDCAMS|STEM R1.'
Define_rc = 4;
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As others have pointed out "IDCAMS" is a NetView command that calls IDCAMS.
The original intent was to allow you to automate maintenance of the VSAM files
that NetView uses without bringing down NetView. However I sure that others,
like you and me, have found other purposes for it.
We also use it for inbound file transfer automation to rename the files so they
have date/time stamps. I have never experienced 878 abends, but that could be
due to the number of times it is called. We now have FTP exits that add the
date/time stamps when the file is created the majority of the time instead of
after the transfer ends. So end up not doing renames calling IDCAMS that much.
From NetView I don't know of another way to call IDCAMS, the only thing I can
think of would be to change your automation so that instead of calling IDCAMS
directly from NetView is to create a file with the control statements you need
and then submit either a batch job or run it as a separate started task
pointing to the file with the control statements. I think somebody else
suggested this also.
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