Hi Lizette,
I think DanD hit it on the head with his suggestion about using infile &
outfile dd statements instead of ids & ods.
Ids & Ods use a disp of "old" during dynamic allocation.
I have a sneaky feeling that your job is contending with itself because grs or
mim can't always see quickly enough that the dataset is free'd after the
del/def.
As the message is an IKJ its implying that its all done within a TSO rexx
routine and rexx is quite well know for erratic behaviour.
Do you have explicit close & free's coded in your rexx for the dataset prior to
the final repro?
In any event, I'd suggest changing your repro to hardcoded infile outfile dd's
with a disp of shr.
regards,
Dave
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>Sorry about the delay in responding. I had a network issue that was not
>resolved until now.
>The correct order is
>1) Allocate new VSAM Temp file
>2) Split off the archive records to a GDG, and the records to be reloaded
>into the VSAM Temp File.
>3) Del/Def the original file name
>4) Repro the VSAM Temp back into the Original name
>Yes, the original is the one that is enqueued. I should have used the term
>TEMP rather than NEW in my example.
>This is a process that will archive of older records from the vsam dataset to
>a GDG and also create a temp VSAM data >set that holds the records to get
>loaded back into the file (don't ask, this is the vendor's process).
>The main reason for this posting is to see if this is still annoying. That
>you can get the message DATA SET IN USE, but >that the process is so quick
>there is no trail of the holder. And from this discussion it seems this is
>still an issue.
>Thanks for all the good commentary.
>Lizette
> >Sometimes (not always) when this job runs I get
> >
> >REPRO IDS(NEW.VSAM.FILE) -
> >. ODS(CURRENT.VSAM.FILE) REUSE
> >.IKJ56225I DATA SET CURRENT.VSAM.FILE ALREADY IN USE, TRY LATER
> >.IKJ56225I DATA SET IS ALLOCATED TO ANOTHER JOB OR USER
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