Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-13 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Right, this is in  SA22-7636-14 and I looked in our -13.
Time to update them again.

Kees.


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 From the 1.9 manuals:
 
 54
 Explanation: DELETE failed because the data set is being renamed but
it
 has not completed.
 
 Programmer Response: Rename the data set with the IDCAMS ALTER command
 and then delete it.
 
 
 
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 after the manual was updated...
 
 
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 I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error:
 
 Environment z/OS 1.7.
 
 VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54
 
 Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52. What is reason
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Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread Mohd Shahrifuddin
Dear Lister,

I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error:

Environment z/OS 1.7.

VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54

Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52. What is reason code 54?

Thanks an advance who response.

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Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread R.S.

Mohd Shahrifuddin wrote:

Dear Lister,

I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error:

Environment z/OS 1.7.

VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54

Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52. What is reason code 54?


Mohd,
My hint: provide whole message. All meesages you got. The more 
information, the better.
If I knew the message number I would check it in manual. Without this I 
don't want to bother. Call me lazy if you want. g


BTW: I'm not so lazy. Just checked IDC3009I - no rsn=54. Possibly it's 
added through a PTF. Or I checked wrong msg.


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Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Mohd Shahrifuddin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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 Dear Lister,
 
 I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error:
 
 Environment z/OS 1.7.
 
 VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54
 
 Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52. What is reason
code 54?
 
 Thanks an advance who response.
 
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IBM has the policy these days to update only the current version of
the manual, so if 1.9 is current, the 1.7 manuals are often not updated.
However, our 1.9 manual does not have the reason code 54 either, so you
could check the 1.10 manuals or look for the APAR that introduced 54.

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Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
From the 1.9 manuals:

54
Explanation: DELETE failed because the data set is being renamed but it
has not completed.

Programmer Response: Rename the data set with the IDCAMS ALTER command
and then delete it.



There were vertical bars beside this entry, so it was added via PTF
after the manual was updated...


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Subject: Delete noscratch

Dear Lister,

I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error:

Environment z/OS 1.7.

VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54

Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52. What is reason code
54?

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-14 Thread Robert Bardos
Rick Fochtman wrote (drifting slightly off topic):
 
 While I can't speak for reverse order with respect to
 catalog entries,
 it makes a HUGE difference in deleting PDS members.
 

Wouldn't it make sense then if ISPF allowed us to sort member
lists in reverse order? I thought and in fact it does. A quick
test doing a sort id name d on a PDS being used by a bunch of
team members confirmed this.

Thanks for the inspiration, Rick.

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Robert Bardos said:

 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:49:56 +0100
 
 Wouldn't it make sense then if ISPF allowed us to sort member
 lists in reverse order? I thought and in fact it does. A quick
 test doing a sort id name d on a PDS being used by a bunch of
 team members confirmed this.
 
Very new -- works on z/OS 1.8; fails with too many sort fields
on 1.6.

 Thanks for the inspiration, Rick.
 
Me, too.

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-14 Thread Ed Finnell
 
In a message dated 12/14/2006 8:18:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Very new  -- works on z/OS 1.8; fails with too many sort fields
on  1.6.





Maybe it's just the syntax. Can sort on any displayed field Ascending is  
default, Descending has been there since day one.
 
Oh, might want to check the Deluxe Check mods on CBT. Think it's got most  of 
these functions covered and a spiffied up version of ISPCALL MACRO. Very  
dangerous to let the apps folks know about this. They can code up whole  
applications in nothing flat!  

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-14 Thread Rick Fochtman

Robert Bardos wrote:


Rick Fochtman wrote (drifting slightly off topic):
 



While I can't speak for reverse order with respect to
catalog entries,
it makes a HUGE difference in deleting PDS members.

   



Wouldn't it make sense then if ISPF allowed us to sort member
lists in reverse order? I thought and in fact it does. A quick
test doing a sort id name d on a PDS being used by a bunch of
team members confirmed this.

Thanks for the inspiration, Rick.

Robert
 


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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Ed Finnell said:

 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:49:59 EST
 
 In a message dated 12/14/2006 8:18:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Very new  -- works on z/OS 1.8; fails with too many sort fields
 on  1.6.
 
 Maybe it's just the syntax. Can sort on any displayed field Ascending is
 default, Descending has been there since day one.
 
Compare:

#1.5.3.5 z/OS V1R6.0 ISPF User's Guide Vol I
 __

  1.5.3.5 Member Selection List Commands
  ...
 * SORT [field1[field2]]

with:

#1.5.3.5 z/OS V1R7.0 ISPF User's Guide Vol I
 __

  1.5.3.5 Member Selection List Commands
  ...
 * | SORT [field1 [A|D] [field2 [A|D]] ]

Note the revision bar.  My experiment confirms.  Perhaps you
were benefitting from a local mod.

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-14 Thread Ed Finnell
 
In a message dated 12/14/2006 9:54:44 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Note the  revision bar.  My experiment confirms.  Perhaps you
were  benefitting from a local mod.




Well semi-hemi-demi. The A and D were added in 1.8 prior to that the A or D  
was determined by field name. No ISPF mods anyway
 

Figure 51. Sort

Fields for Source Libraries
 Field   
 Sequence 
 Description 
 Name
 Ascending
 Member name 
 Lib 
 
 Ascending
  
 Library in  
 concatenation sequence  
 VV  
 Ascending
 ISPF version number 
 MM  
 Ascending
 ISPF modification level 
 Created 
 Descending   
 Creation date   
 Changed 
 
 Descending   
  
 Date and time last  
 changed 
 Size
 
 Descending   
  
 Current number of   
 records 
 Init
 
 Descending   
  
 Initial number of   
 records 
 Mod 
 
 Descending   
  
 Number of modified  
 records 
 ID  
 Ascending
 Last user   

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/12/2006
   at 06:01 PM, Harold Zbiegien said:

Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??

Don't use AMS. Check the options mentioned by other posters. If they
don't suit your needs, write a small assembler program that uncatalogs
the data sets directly.

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-13 Thread willie bunter
Just to add my 2 cents about the DELCATE.  In our last DRP (nightmare at ELM 
STREET d0es not compare) the user used this command while performing a logical 
restore.  However, it clobbered all the aliases.  I think if the DELCATE parm 
is used then the CATALOG parm is required regardless if the volumes are SMS 
managed.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Are you using DFDSS to restore your 
files? If so you can use the DELCATE
parameter to have DFDSS perform the DELETE NOSCRATCH for you.


 
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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
We basically uncatalog all of our disk datasets
leaving just the tape datasets in the catalogs.
The catalogs are restored along with full pack
restores of certain volumes.

Can you isolate the usercatalogs with disk entries on seperate volumes from
the user catalogs with tape entries and then only do the full volume
restore for the tape entry catalog?  Then simply define empty user catalogs
for the missing disk ones?   Eliminate the need to do the delete work.

Another thought - would it be simplier (and perhaps quicker) to do full
volume restores for all your data instead of selectively restoring only
certain datasets? Can the data be organized in a manner that would
allow this to happen this way?   Test data vs Production data on different
volumes, perhaps?

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-13 Thread Rick Fochtman

Harold Zbiegien wrote:


We have a performance problem I am trying to improve.

When we do our Disaster recovery tests we wind up do a large amount of 
delete noscratch against our user catalogs. We basically uncatalog all 
of our disk datasets leaving just the tape datasets in the catalogs.  
The catalogs are restored along with full pack restores of certain 
volumes.  We then selectively restore our needed disk datasets, almost 
always to different volsers than in production.


Well we generate the IDCAMS delete noscratch statements in about 20 
seconds, but then running the acutal IDCAMS deletes takes upwards of 
80 minutes to uncatalog 92,000 entries from our largest user catalog.  
We delete them in alphabetical order.


Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??

The job runs unconstrained.  It pretty much is the only thing running 
in the system, it (CATALOG address space) must be doing a huge amount 
of IO.


I though perhaps deleteing things in reverse alphabetical order might 
improve things but that is just a wild guess.


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While I can't speak for reverse order with respect to catalog entries, 
it makes a HUGE difference in deleting PDS members.


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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-13 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:01:48 -0500, Harold Zbiegien wrote:


Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??


We do essentially the same thing at our DR tests.

I have a REXX EXEC that runs through all the catalogs and verifies 
datasets in each catalog actually reside on the volume the catalog says it 
does. If not, I generate a DELETE NOSCRATCH statement for IDCAMS. Deleting 
a couple thousand entries is fairly fast. We do have one catalog that 
contains 99% stale data, so I end up erasing almost all of the catalog 
entries in that catalog - tens of thousands. While it takes a while to 
complete this cleanup, it's nowhere near 80 minutes.

Maybe splitting it up into smaller chunks ??? I perceive the cleanup 
process slows down after several thousand deletes as well. But I've got 
other things going on while that is running, so I don't really care that 
much.

Good Luck.

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-13 Thread Bruce Black
When we do our Disaster recovery tests we wind up do a large amount of 
delete noscratch against our user catalogs. We basically uncatalog all 
of our disk datasets leaving just the tape datasets in the catalogs.  
The catalogs are restored along with full pack restores of certain 
volumes.  We then selectively restore our needed disk datasets, almost 
always to different volsers than in production.
First quesion: if you restore the user catalogs, why do you need to 
uncatalog the datasets?   Restore would effectly uncatalog anything that 
had changed since the backup


Well we generate the IDCAMS delete noscratch statements in about 20 
seconds, but then running the acutal IDCAMS deletes takes upwards of 
80 minutes to uncatalog 92,000 entries from our largest user catalog.  
We delete them in alphabetical order.


Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??
I find that catalog caching had the largest known effect on catalog 
operation times.  Check out the caching options in the Managing 
Catalogs manual.  It might even be possible to disable caching during 
the uncatalogs.   This might be done by altering the SHR options to make 
the catalog appear to be unshared during the uncatalogs.


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delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-12 Thread Harold Zbiegien

We have a performance problem I am trying to improve.

When we do our Disaster recovery tests we wind up do a large amount of 
delete noscratch against our user catalogs. We basically uncatalog all of 
our disk datasets leaving just the tape datasets in the catalogs.  The 
catalogs are restored along with full pack restores of certain volumes.  We 
then selectively restore our needed disk datasets, almost always to 
different volsers than in production.


Well we generate the IDCAMS delete noscratch statements in about 20 seconds, 
but then running the acutal IDCAMS deletes takes upwards of 80 minutes to 
uncatalog 92,000 entries from our largest user catalog.  We delete them in 
alphabetical order.


Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??

The job runs unconstrained.  It pretty much is the only thing running in the 
system, it (CATALOG address space) must be doing a huge amount of IO.


I though perhaps deleteing things in reverse alphabetical order might 
improve things but that is just a wild guess.


Harold 


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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??

Multiple jobs in parallel?
Live with it?

Do you need to do a massive uncatalogue?
Why not just create an 'empty' catalogue?
When in doubt.
PANIC!!  

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-12 Thread Matthew Stitt
Are you using DFDSS to restore your files?  If so you can use the DELCATE
parameter to have DFDSS perform the DELETE NOSCRATCH for you.

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:45:50 -0500, Richards.Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

Checkout out the CATSCRUB function of Catalog RecoveryPlus from
Mainstar/Rocket Software: www.mainstar.com


Bob Richards


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Subject: delete noscratch performance at DR

We have a performance problem I am trying to improve.

When we do our Disaster recovery tests we wind up do a large amount of
delete noscratch against our user catalogs. We basically uncatalog all
of
our disk datasets leaving just the tape datasets in the catalogs.  The
catalogs are restored along with full pack restores of certain volumes.
We
then selectively restore our needed disk datasets, almost always to
different volsers than in production.

Well we generate the IDCAMS delete noscratch statements in about 20
seconds,
but then running the acutal IDCAMS deletes takes upwards of 80 minutes
to
uncatalog 92,000 entries from our largest user catalog.  We delete them
in
alphabetical order.

Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??

The job runs unconstrained.  It pretty much is the only thing running in
the
system, it (CATALOG address space) must be doing a huge amount of IO.

I though perhaps deleteing things in reverse alphabetical order might
improve things but that is just a wild guess.

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Re: delete noscratch performance at DR

2006-12-12 Thread Larry Crilley
The best way would be to use a product like T-REX.  The T-REX SCRUB command
will remove entries from your usercatalogs without the need to go thru
IDCAMS.  Also, T-REX is the only tool on the market that can subtask the
SCRUB process.  As many as 32 catalogs can be scrubbed simultaneously.

Of course, an even better option would be to use the T-REX DRIMPORT command.
This will reload your usercatalogs (delete and redefine them, reestablish
all ALIAS, etc) and provide you with the option to only restore entries
defined to TAPE.  Thus, your time to SCRUB is eliminated completely.  When
your catalogs are reloaded, only your tape entries are restored.  

Larry Crilley
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Subject: delete noscratch performance at DR

We have a performance problem I am trying to improve.

When we do our Disaster recovery tests we wind up do a large amount of 
delete noscratch against our user catalogs. We basically uncatalog all of 
our disk datasets leaving just the tape datasets in the catalogs.  The 
catalogs are restored along with full pack restores of certain volumes.  We 
then selectively restore our needed disk datasets, almost always to 
different volsers than in production.

Well we generate the IDCAMS delete noscratch statements in about 20 seconds,

but then running the acutal IDCAMS deletes takes upwards of 80 minutes to 
uncatalog 92,000 entries from our largest user catalog.  We delete them in 
alphabetical order.

Do you know of anyway I can SPEED up this process??

The job runs unconstrained.  It pretty much is the only thing running in the

system, it (CATALOG address space) must be doing a huge amount of IO.

I though perhaps deleteing things in reverse alphabetical order might 
improve things but that is just a wild guess.

Harold 

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