John,
May I ask where you work? My friends in Australia may know some of the
management folks at your site. Is there anything I can send to you to
help your cause? What types of JCL issues do you typically have? May I
ask what batch scheduler you use? Change management tool? .....anything
else you can tell me.
Cheers,
Mitch McCluhan
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From: McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com>
To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 5:15 am
Subject: Re: JCL PROBLEM
Just a point which may not be obvious (at least it wasn't to me). The
default of
5 tape volumes is "hard coded" only for non-SMS managed tapes. Truly!
If you are
using SMS managed tapes (in an automated or even manual library), then
you can
assign a default DATACLAS. In this DATACLAS, you can set the "volume
count" to
something else. We started having problems with some backups of files
which had
ballooned suddenly, which was causing a lot of abends due to exceeding
tape
volumes. There were simply too many JCL streams to update in a timely
manner
(change control). Since all our application tapes are in a VTS library,
and so
SMS managed, I simply changed our default DATACLAS which is assigned to
virtual
tapes to have a "volume count" of 110. Saved a ton of work.
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[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dawes
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 5:22 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: JCL PROBLEM
Thanks for the tip. If I need to code the vol parm e.g.
VOL=(,,,35) if the output exceedes 5 vols (system default)
how would I go about it since I already have a vol parm in the jcl.
________________________________
From: Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com>
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2012 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: JCL PROBLEM
Might I suggest a RETAIN on the FIRST step and omit on the LAST step?
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:20 PM, John Dawes
<jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> John,
>
> You were spot on. Your suggestion worked. Thanks a million.
>
> Thanks to all who responded for my plea for help.
--
Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
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