Re: DFHSM Issue - Critical

2009-03-10 Thread L D Owen
I agree with "don't cancel" as many bad things can and do happen. When you hold RECYCLE, it will finish the tape it is currently recycling, and if I'm not wrong, it will finish the entire volume chain (if the volume was part of a chain). Try HOLD RECYCLE EOD instead as it will hold at the end

Re: How to use CSI Catalog Search Interface

2009-03-10 Thread L D Owen
It may be that your WORK area is too small. I had issues with the CSI code hanging or just plain not working. I used the following values and it helped. WORKLEN = 64000 dwork = 'FA00'X || COPIES('00'X,WORKLEN-4) LDO

Re: DASD Space Allocation

2008-08-18 Thread L D Owen
>>I was surprised to read that on second and subsequent volumes, allocation is based on SECONDARY amounts. Just to confuse everything, VSAM rules are just the opposite. For VSAM datasets, the Primary is used on each subsequent volume for the initial extent (s) on that volume, and then Secondary