Mark, >Has IBM ever told you why PDSE(1)_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE isn't working >for you in this case? Have they committed to have some relief for you in >a future release (FIN APAR)? > >If you can write a little code to (almost) solve the problem, why can't IBM do >something similar (but better / more elegant).
Very good question. They probably haven't done *anything* for this, because I haven't really reported it. So far I have only griped about it here on ibmmain. - Only griped about it mostly because usually IBM first is going to tell me all the crap like 'if they're non-sms it will work for sms managed data sets' and whatever else they can come up with to pretend that there isn't a problem. They *were* non-sms until a short while ago. Making them SMS-managed didn't help. - I hate being told that something is broken as designed, and no, IBM is not going to do something about it. Which is the way a lot of my ETRs go. Until I lean really heavily on IBM and escalate. Sometimes *that* gets something really bad fixed. But it takes a lot of effort and time on my part, including proving to IBM that their conclusions are wrong, and I am tired of IBM support's bullheaded stubbornness. They have worn me down. Mostly. - And since it will probably take tons of docs that IBM is going to say they need (to "prove" to me that I have a faulty environment) which will take tons of time to produce (that I don't have), I haven't opened an ETR yet. I am really tired of jumping through hoops just because IBM asks for needless docs instead of reproducing the problem themselves. Or of putting someone on it who *understands* z/OS. And no, you US Americans are a lot better off with the support you get than the rest of the world is. (For PDSE, though, the EMEA level2 support is pretty decent - I know the guy, he has also helped writing the PDSE redbook.) - Guess that was another rant, right? In any case, my little program only helps for the first 15 minutes, then it doesn't anymore until the next open/close. I *think* a few years back (before BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE) the program helped 24 hours a day. But that was so long ago, that it has become blurry. - Best regards, Barbara who one of these weeks *will* report it one way or another to IBM, I just need the time! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
