Tom, You are absolutely correct; no harm running TMSINIT as often as you want (with tape processing active). I have seen some sites run TMSINIT twice a day. They wanted to change subpool definitions on a shift-by-shift basis (never did understand that one at all).
To be honest, I had to go back to the source and the oldest online manual trying to find when we added the NODATE option (it wasn't there when I started back in 88; but couldn't remember when we actually added it). Russell Witt CA 1 L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Differences in IEFTMS7 and IEFTMS8 On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:34:01 -0600, Russell Witt wrote: > >Second (to address Tom's and Richard's complaint) we did realize that IPL's >were not done on a regular weekly basis at all sites anymore. We added a >PARM=NODATE to TMSINIT years ago to prevent any WTOR's from being >issued. With PARM=NODATE, we simply assume the system date is correct >and run without any WTOR's being issued from TMSINIT. This parameter has >been around since at least R5.2 (back in the 95 time-frame). Thanks, Russell. If I ever knew about PARM=NODATE, I had long since forgotten. I apologize for slamming your product. If I remember correctly, there is no harm in running TMSINIT when TMS is already active. So Richard could run TMSINIT daily (or wekly) and it would never complain about the date unless it was really wrong. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
