"Paul Gilmartin" <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote in message news:<listserv%201007060957004521.0...@bama.ua.edu>... > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:46:59 -0500, John Hooper wrote: > > >will now cause failures. An improperly scheduled production job may cause > >another to fail. Someone will have to scour syslogs to find those jobs. > >With > >the front-end one job would just wait a little bit. This facility has saved > >thousands of failures over the years. I assume others have had similar > >issues > >and either use data isolation or a 2x4 over the head approach. It might be > >worth a SHARE requirement to provide an exit point to address this problem. > > > At present, use of S99WTDSN is restricted to APF authorized jobs.
And that is a good thing, isn't it? You don't want everybody to create deadlocks, only APF programmers. There are 2 options: 1 Retry the allocation at some interval, for some period. SAS has the ability for this in the FILENAME/LIBNAME statement. Dynalloc coders have it too of course. 2 Return to JCL allocation. This will very much clear up the situation: -The programmer does not have to worry about allocation, when the program runs, it *has* the dataset. -Jobs will simply wait and produce message for the operator, who can then determine who is waiting and who is holding and what to do with the situaition. The messages can also be trapped by your automation tool, which can then do the determination and consequent actions. Kees. > A finer granularity of control by RACF, allowing certain jobs to use > S99WTDSN with certain DSNAMEs might provide relief. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
