This is within one sysplex. We're asking ourselves the same questions. Dave, I will let you know the quite interesting details when the drill down is complete. David
-----Original Message----- From: Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Oct 23, 2019 12:01 AM Subject: Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues Why would this change, between PDS and PDS/E? Unless this is yet another encounter with the pitfall os trying to share PDE/E outside Sysplex. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of David Purdy > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 2:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues > > I recently converted several PSF libraries, resulting in a problem if a dasd > reorg moved the dataset while PSF tasks are up. PSF does not issue an > enqueue but has the dataset open. The volume reorg only checks for > enqueue before moving the dataset. Short term, we configed the reorg to > skip PSF datasets. Long term, looking at setting DSI and setting a dataset > close flag in a PSF exit. Or just taking down printers before reorg in the > wee > morning hours. > David > -----Original Message----- > From: Toby Seguin <[email protected]> > To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 03:06 PM > Subject: PDS to PDSE conversion issues > > > We are currently thinking about converting many of our PDS libraries to PDSE. > While researching the possible pitfalls to a PDSE one that concerned me the > most is "Blocked Workload" that Thomas Reed discussed at SHARE in 2018. > > This situation is said to occur when CPU is near 100% (pretty common event > from time to time here) so it certainly caught my attention. Does anyone > have any experience with Blocked Workload? Anything else I should be > looking closer at? > > Thanks and Regards, > > Toby Seguin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
