Where I work is in all my sig lines. Doesn't matter, if you're thinking of anything that costs money. We aren't spending any more than we currently do. And we may actually get more budget cuts in 2013. Our main OEM vendor is CA. We don't normally have JCL problems, the one I mentioned was endemic due to converting from BMC's Data Accelerator compression to SMS compression and its effect on CA-Faver backups. The z/OS system is generally moribund.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mitch > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:46 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: JCL PROBLEM > > 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 > > > -----Original Message----- > 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. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets® > > 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone . > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain > confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended > recipient, please > contact > the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued > by the > insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life > Insurance > Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and > The MEGA > Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [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 > > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
