Endevor "temp" datasets are not always temporary in the z/OS sense. :(

Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University

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> Subject: Re: Dynamic Allocation error in CA-Endevor
> 
> Not the problem. The problem appears to be a "permanent" data set
> allocation with a name like: SYS13036.Thhmmss.RA0.userid.COBLST. The ACS
> routines say that this allocation is not DSTYPE='TEMP'. So that test does
> not match. Eventually the STORCLAS falls down to the OTHERWISE which fails
> the allocation due to NON-STANDARD DATA SET NAME. Strangely, my boss
> has
> gotten around it by changing the DISP=(MOD,PASS) to DISP=(OLD,PASS) in the
> SCL for the Endevor processor.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:02 PM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Mike Wawiorko wrote:
> >
> >> SYS13036.T095110.RA0.TSH012.**COBLST
> >>
> >> At a quick glance this looks like a temporary dataset. Could you have two
> >> similarly named trying to be allocated within the same second 09:51:10?
> >>
> >>  <snip>
> >
> > If so...it's worth a look at the ALLOCxx parmlib support we added in z/OS
> > V1.12, which should vastly reduce the probability of that sort of problem
> > occurring for temporary data sets.
> >
> > The keyword is SYSTEM TEMPDSFORMAT(UNIQUE|**INCLUDELABEL), and
> > INCLUDELABEL (the way the system used to act) is the default.
> >
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