On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:16:58 -0700, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 8/30/2013 9:54 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> I assumed that RETPD(2) and AUTODELETE(YES) would keep the number of >> health checker data sets to a minimum, but there is a space explosion >> of literally thousands of IXGLOGR.HZS.** data sets--with the oldest of >> them allocated last year: > >My attempt to manually delete the oldest data set resulted in: > >IEC331I 050-088(,MVSNV1),EDJXADM,$IKJTEST,VCMP,IGG0CLE4 >IDC0550I ENTRY (D) IXGLOGR.HZS.HEALTH.CHECKER.JZSV7FLI DELETED >IDC0550I ENTRY (C) IXGLOGR.HZS.HEALTH.CHECKER.HISTORY.A0000471 DELETED >IDC3014I CATALOG ERROR+ >IDC0551I ** ENTRY IXGLOGR.HZS.HEALTH.CHECKER.HISTORY.A0000471 NOT DELETED >IDC0014I LASTCC=8 >IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 50 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFL-88 >*** > >050-088 means: > >Explanation: A VVR or NVR with the correct component >name was found, but the catalog name did not match. On >a delete request, the BCS record will be deleted, but >the VVR or NVR and the format 1 DSCB will not be >scratched. There is no SFI data. > >It turned out the IXGLOGR prefix was not an alias. IXGLOGR data sets >were (unknowingly) being cataloged in the master catalog! We used a >separate master catalog for a z/OS 2.1 image that we joined last year to >our sysplex with existing z/OS 1.13 images. Apparently, that's about the >time when automatic deletion stopped working for this log stream... > >I deleted all of the HZS logger data sets, removed the (literally) >thousands of "dangling" VVRs, and created a user catalog alias for >IXGLOGR so this can't happen again. Sheesh! > >Thanks for your attention... > >-- z/OS 2.1 for year? Wow... I didn't realize you got it that early. Glad you found the problem. I assume if you scanned syslog(s) or operlog you would see those same error messages every time LOGR tried to delete one of those data sets. BTW, why only RETPD 2 days? These data sets aren't that big and every once in a while I find it very useful to print the history for a check. I have mine set up for 14 days even in my sandboxes. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
