I don't know much about MIM but as the doctor says "then don't do that"... Have you considered to get away from the DASD control file as the primary control file? If the sharing is all inside the scope of a parallel Sysplex you could use list structures in a coupling facility. This is what we do though admittedly we only use MIA as we are using only GRS for serialization and never used MIC. If not Coupling Facility then perhaps you could use CTCONLY.
*==============================================================* * FOR COMMUNICATION METHODS DASDONLY AND CTCDASD, * DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATE CONTROL FILES IF MIMTBL00 AND MIMTBL01 * ARE COMMENTED OUT OF MIMPROC, OR USE COUPLING FACILITY * LIST STRUCTURE CONTROL FILES *==============================================================* * ALLOCATE XESFILEID=00 STRNAME=(MIMGR#TABLE00) ALLOCATE XESFILEID=01 STRNAME=(MIMGR#TABLE01) ALLOCATE DDNAME=MIMTBL02,DSNAME=SYSOP.MIMGTAF.CF02 ALLOCATE DDNAME=MIMTBL03,DSNAME=SYSOP.MIMGTAF.CF03 * Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David A. Wright Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 1:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MIM control file volume DASD lockout Hi Mark: We start all of our MIMGR address spaces through MIMASC. We have taken GTF traces, at STKs recommendations. We have not taken a system dump, because STK feels that the problem is in the channel subsystem. Thanks, ________________________________________________________________________ _ David A. Wright Dominion Resources Services, Inc. One James River Plaza Enterprise Operations-IT Systems Programming IT-DP/OJRP-10 Richmond, VA 23219 Tie Line: 8-736-3354 Pager: (804) 273-3030 #2942 Phone: (804) 771-3354 Fax: (804) 771-6146 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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