If you have some sort of automation package like Mainview for IMS or AutoOperator, you could have it change your archive job to use DASD rather than tape when it sees your VTS's go boxed. Then your IMS's don't go belly up because they ran out of OLDS, and your archives don't get backed up either.
Norris Jackson The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Alford Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Boxed Devices Ate My Job Our IMS system periodically submits batch jobs to offload its logs. Of course the job never fails until we run for 9 days unattended over the Christmas break. Some unexplained event caused the twin fiber links to our VTS to drop offline for about 10 minutes, generating sticky messages IOS581E and IOS208I. The rub then comes that the system generates messages IOS102I and IOS451I and boxes the device when the paths come online. Then some time later IMS submits his batch job which fails with a JCL error due to allocation failure because all 64 virtual tape drives have been boxed. No amount of COND=... will help for a JCL error so the email and text message alerts were never sent. Suggestions for automation or notification? (MPFLST only) Automatically vary the boxed device back online? Ben Alford Enterprise Systems Programming University of Tennessee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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
