As Steve said that is what X37 type software does. The X37 software steps in to determine if it should try to help recover from a X37 error. Now if that type of software is not in the cards, then maybe looking at how datasets are allocated might be a way to help reduce X37 errors.
If SMS is in the picture, you could look at some type of general rule around volume count. The down side to that is it takes up room in the TIOT below the line. If you open/allocate lots of datasets you might run out of room in the TIOT. If you are pushing all TIOT stuff above the line then space may not be an issue. Keeping with SMS maybe look at dataset allocation stuff. It comes down to the size of the primary and secondary allocation. Maybe some datasets are better off with a large primary and small secondary. While other datasets might work better with a small primary and large secondary. As far as I know SMS changes really only come into play during dataset allocation. Will not help with datasets already allocated. Paul -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 07:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Automating fix for B37 from a recovery program What you’re describing and wanting to do is exactly how the product stop X 37 works Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jun 23, 2026, at 19:39, Joseph Reichman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was able to verify what Kurtz Q told me earlier that SDWAGR02 > Points to the dcb in a recovery program > > That being said is it possible I guess via SVC 99 to fix I.e > reallocate a dataset from a recovery program > > Thanks > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
