Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread Gibney, Dave
Never had either product, but x37 abends went away when we put in SMS. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gsg Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: StopX37 to CA-Allocate Our shop uses SMS

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/01/2007 07:35:16 PM: Our shop uses SMS for allocation and StopX37, but we are looking at replacing StopX37 with CA-Allocate. Does anyone have any experience coverting from StopX37 to CA-Allocate or converting off of CA-Allocate

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread Ed Gould
On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:33 AM, John Kington wrote: We converted many years ago before SMS provided Storage Constraint Relief. We use CA-Vantage along with CA-Disk so CA-Allocate was a better fit. If you are not dependent on notcat 2 processing, you should try SCR first mostly due to the fact

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread John Kington
DUPLICATE NAME EXISTS IN CATALOG StopX37 and CA-Allocate will detect either condition and can be setup to delete or uncatalog the old dataset so that the new dataset can be cataloged. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread gsg
What kind of logic did you put in to make the 37 abends go away? Just installing SMS, doesn't make that happen. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread Ed Gould
If the dataset is SMS-managed, you get a jcl error and message IEF344I R000493N STEP0 DD001 - ALLOCATION FAILED DUE TO DATA FACILITY SYSTEM ERROR IGD17101I DATA SET SYS.DMGT.R000493.TEST NOT DEFINED BECAUSE DUPLICATE NAME EXISTS IN CATALOG StopX37 and CA-Allocate will detect either condition

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread John Kington
NOT CATLGD 2 If the dataset is SMS-managed, you get a jcl error and message IEF344I R000493N STEP0 DD001 - ALLOCATION FAILED DUE TO DATA FACILITY SYSTEM ERROR IGD17101I DATA SET SYS.DMGT.R000493.TEST NOT DEFINED BECAUSE DUPLICATE NAME EXISTS IN CATALOG StopX37 and CA-Allocate

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread Gibney, Dave
8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate What kind of logic did you put in to make the 37 abends go away? Just installing SMS, doesn't make that happen. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread Ed Gould
On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:50 PM, John Kington wrote: Ed, I always considered it bad design. Chalk it up to user desire because they found it expedient. Once in place, it became the new normal and jcl was structured to rely upon the automatic error handling. There is no way to stop without

StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-01 Thread gsg
Our shop uses SMS for allocation and StopX37, but we are looking at replacing StopX37 with CA-Allocate. Does anyone have any experience coverting from StopX37 to CA-Allocate or converting off of CA-Allocate. I'd appreciate any feedback I can get. Pros/Cons, why you converted off

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-01 Thread William McKinley
If you like, I can put you in touch with an expert consultant - but he would charge you. He's doing this now for a client in New York.Regards, Bil McKinley Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:35:16 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: StopX37 to CA-Allocate To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Our shop uses SMS