In the interest of conserving disk resources, some installations create DASD management rules that delete ISPF edit backup files prematurely, defeating RECOVERY ON. Depending on your site's policies, it may (or may not) be possible to address the issue by pre-allocating your backup datasets to perm packs before you enter ISPF.
Note that depending on your SPLIT NEW limit, you may have to pre-allocation anywhere from 8 to 32 such datasets for RECOVERY ON to work in all logical windows. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Doing some work in edit (TSO/ISPF). Userid timed out on Friday... > > Monday AM, logged on with the original userid (I have two similarly named > IDs) and split the screen. > > I had some PDS I needed to look at before I could go back to the edit I > was in. So when Edit started, it popped up the recovery panel, and I > replied "DEFER" and went on to what I needed to check (it was a restore of > a backup...). > > Now, I needed to look at the backup file, so I swapped screens, used =3.4 > to get userid.**.backup, and used view, and it told me what I needed to > know (which member of which PDSE) -- (there was only ONE backup file for > this ID). > > Back to the top screen (I don't do rings), and DSLIST and select the PDSE > with "E" and I went to the member selection panel. I should have gotten the > recovery panel. > > Ok, got out of ISPF and back in to =2 for direct to Edit. Still no > recovery panel. > > Anyone else run into this kind of thing since, what, about 2009 (seems I > was involved in some similar strangeness with userid.**.BACKUP in this area > back then -- based on the IBM Main archives). > > This is a z/OS 2.1 system. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- OREXXMan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
