> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Juraschek
>
> > ... CICS "close immediate" situation
>
> This really is a red herring.
More than a few shops use CEMT P SHUT I as their "normal" means of
terminating CICS, despite the warnings in the CICS documentation of the
adverse consequences IBM GUARANTEES will occur. "Haste makes waste."
> The CICS CEMT PERFORM SHUT IMMEDIATE is completely IBM code.
So are the MVS CANCEL and FORCE commands, among others.
> This is an example of where this is absolutely not a
> user/application/customer problem.
>
> If it is violating some IBM VSAM file rule, it's still an IBM
> problem and one would think that the IBM VSAM folks would
> have asked the IBM CICS folks to play by their restrictive
> rules years and years and years ago - especially, if this is
> a primary cause of the statistics corruption as Mark claims.
One should likewise expect the same considerations from the folks who wrote
the CANCEL and FORCE commands.
The fact remains that CEMT P SHUT I causes an ABNORMAL termination of CICS,
as would the MVS CANCEL or FORCE command. The fact also remains that on a
commanded ABNORMAL termination of (anything), VSAM cannot update the dataset
statistics because the issuer of the command has INTENTIONALLY prevented it
from doing so.
-jc-
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