Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-12-04 Thread Scott Ballentine
prevent it. -Scott Ballentine, IBM z/OS Device Allocation sbal...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-12-01 Thread Scott Ballentine
. By the way, to clarify something from one of the responses - upgrading enqueues is allowed (with limitations, and that's why we try to obtain serialization the way we do), and downgrading is also allowed if you request it (see the DSENQSHR parameter on the JOB statement.) -Scott Ballentine, IBM z/OS

Re: Question About IEFSSI REQUEST=QUERY

2023-10-13 Thread Scott Ballentine
, you should not assume that a service will zero an output address for you if the service could not return data (which goes to Rob's comment about zeroing the output address before calling IEFSSI to make sure it is clean.) -Scott Ballentine IBM z/OS Development

Re: Dynamic information Retrieval - TU C012

2023-03-23 Thread Scott Ballentine
that OPEN processing retrieves some of that information from the data set and puts it in SWA - then Dynamic Information Retrieval doesn't have the information to return to you. -Scott Ballentine z/OS Device Allocation, Scheduler, SMF Development

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMF dump program parameter question

2021-11-18 Thread Scott Ballentine
I'll confirm it: REPORTOPTS was not rolled back to z/OS 2.3. 2.4 and above only. - Scott Ballentine z/OS Allocation, Scheduler, SMF Development sbal...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: DYNALLOC, FREE, and ENQ?

2021-10-13 Thread Scott Ballentine
al DDs are CLOSEd. And a dynamic allocation that causes the data set ENQ to be upgraded from SHR to EXCL prevents any downgrading. -Scott Ballentine IBM z/OS Device Allocation Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: What happens if an SMF exit modifies the SMF record?

2019-06-12 Thread Scott Ballentine
The IEFU8x exits get the "live" record, so yes, any updates that the exit makes would get passed on down the line. I thought this was documented, but I did a quick search and didn't find it either. (There are some places that hint at it but I didn't find anything that spells it out

Re: SVC99 DEALLOC Failure

2018-10-30 Thread Scott Ballentine
o the text unit list for the unallocation is pointing to the correct storage, the text units contain the correct keys, and that you don't have the end of list indicator (the high-order bit) turned on for any of the text unit pointers other than the last. -Scott Ballentine (sbal...@us.ibm.

Re: AW: Re: IEFA111I at IPL Time for z/OS V2.3

2018-01-17 Thread Scott Ballentine
That's correct - the IEFA111I message is intended to be information to help debug a job that didn't behave as expected. It's issued when a job has MSGLEVEL=(,1) in effect. I've arranged to have the System Messages documentation updated. -Scott Ballentine (sbal...@us.ibm.com) z/OS Allocation

Re: GDG +1 dynamic allocation collision between two concurrent jobs

2017-09-13 Thread Scott Ballentine
in the window where it is unallocated, so this might not be a viable option - that's for you to decide based on what your application is doing.) -Scott Ballentine (sbal...@us.ibm.com) z/OS Device Allocation Development -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: JOB cards, procs, and TIOTs, o my!

2016-06-30 Thread Scott Ballentine
-a-JOB case.) You might want to experiment with S MYPROC,JOBNAME=, and try running a batch job that has a step that EXECs a proc. -Scott Ballentine z/OS Device Allocation sbal...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: TIOT exceeded

2016-06-21 Thread Scott Ballentine
into multiple steps to make it fit. You could crank up the TIOT size to 64K. You could also try something a little more sophisticated - like dynamically allocating the data sets (take a look at IDCAMS, which can access the data sets via dynamic allocation and avoid the batch limits.) -Scott

Re: How to Dynamically add SUBSYTEM

2016-01-18 Thread Scott Ballentine
(maybe the initialization routine ABENDs, as an example) then you could use the SETSSI command to delete it and then issue a SETSSI ADD to create it. -Scott Ballentine (sbal...@us.ibm.com), IBM z/OS Allocation On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:02:47 -0800, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com>

Re: vary dev,console with an IEF238D outstanding.

2015-08-26 Thread Scott Ballentine
.) The console state is separate from online or offline. Sorry, that serialization is really necessary. -Scott Ballentine IBM z/OS Device Allocation -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: IKJ56228I vs. IEFA107I

2015-02-13 Thread Scott Ballentine
I think it'd be fair to open a PMR here. IEFA107I should be telling you what it was that couldn't be found, and it doesn't seem like it's doing that. -Scott Ballentine IBM z/OS Allocation sbal...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN