Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 05/14/2012 at 10:34 AM, "McKown, John" said: >About as smoothly as a Baja race. I don't know anything about Baja races, but I assume from your comment that they're painful. >I still have scars. I missed the initial release of DF/EF, and after reading the feedback I was quite happy t

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 05/13/12 14:27, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In<1336770284.12924.20.camel@localhost>, on 05/11/2012 at 05:04 PM, David Andrews said: So expanding the max number of generations much past 255 is problematic with the current key design. I guess IBM could walk in a new catalog forma

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-14 Thread McKown, John
Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 1:28 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries > > In <1336770284.12924.20.camel@localhost>, on 05/11/2012 >at 05:04 PM, David Andrews said: > > >So expanding the max number of g

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1336770284.12924.20.camel@localhost>, on 05/11/2012 at 05:04 PM, David Andrews said: >So expanding the max number of generations much past 255 is >problematic with the current key design. I guess IBM could walk >in a new catalog format (by e.g. allowing more than one GDS per >extension

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 11:43 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <9a5727782f43d643b484c4d0dca637a303610...@dfle30.ent.ti.com>, on > 05/10/2012 >at 08:12 PM, "Donnelly, John" said: > > >Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater > >than 255... > > No. Has anybod

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 11 May 2012 16:16:03 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 00:58 -0500 on 05/11/2012, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: ### of GDG Entries: > >>We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as >>part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets. &g

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:58 -0500 on 05/11/2012, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: ### of GDG Entries: We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets. Why not make them members of a PDS? The member name would be XDDDHHMM where X is the year

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread McKown, John
l Gilmartin > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 11:41 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries > > On Fri, 11 May 2012 11:43:33 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > > > >The suggestion to create datasets with a timestamp in the name seems > >lik

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 11 May 2012 11:43:33 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >The suggestion to create datasets with a timestamp in the name seems >like your best bet in the meantime. > However, that suggestion treads perilously close to the topic of many an inflammatory thread hereabouts. -- gil -

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <9a5727782f43d643b484c4d0dca637a303610...@dfle30.ent.ti.com>, on 05/10/2012 at 08:12 PM, "Donnelly, John" said: >We have a business application that creates literally 100s of >GDGs a day; ITYM 100's of GDS's a day in the same GDG. >Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG ba

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
ular intervals suggestion. From: "Donnelly, John" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:36 PM Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries Thankyou all John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-4

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Schwab
We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 20:12 + on 05/10/2012, Donnelly, John wrote about ### of GDG Entries: > >> We hav

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 20:12 + on 05/10/2012, Donnelly, John wrote about ### of GDG Entries: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... Why not concatenate all of them dail

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
ursday, May 10, 2012 5:36 PM Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries Thankyou all John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne...@ti.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-10 22:12, Donnelly, John pisze: We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... g NO. THE LIMIT IS 255. However... a) you can live with rolled off generation

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Donnelly, John
, 2012 2:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries Hi John, I have had I similar GDG 'thing'. It would be helpful to know more details... In my case, we were receiving a widely varying number of reports that we were to backup and print for our customer. We scheduled

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Linda
Hi John, I have had I similar GDG 'thing'. It would be helpful to know more details... In my case, we were receiving a widely varying number of reports that we were to backup and print for our customer. We scheduled the print job to run every 8 hours. The operations staff fit the actual printi

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Donnelly, John wrote: > We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; > please don't ask. > Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than > 255... > > Short answer: No. Max GDG limit is 255. A GDG dataset with

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Williamson, James R
3:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ### of GDG Entries We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Staller, Allan
Short answer... NO. The data can be kept after it rolls off the GDG, but it is "just a file" at that point and must be referenced by the fully qualified DSN e.g. x.y.x.gvnn We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create

### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Donnelly, John
We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a day; please don't ask. Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255... John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell john.p.donne