Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users - HIPER DATALOSS

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: I can't for the life of me explain why this is not HIPER, but if you use PDSEs in your shop I highly recommend APAR OA30338. FYI. This APAR has now been marked HIPER DATALOSS. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 9024

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 06/08/2010 at 12:29 PM, "Chase, John" said: >I'll hazard a guess that you're still proficient with EDLIN on DOS, >too. :-) But why would he admit to a familiarity with Mr. EDLIN? Of course, I too have dark secrets in my past. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 06/08/2010 at 01:17 PM, Tony Harminc said: >I discovered much to my surprise today that TSO EDIT doesn't support >PDSEs. Ouch! >Well perhaps I'm the only person left on the planet who still >remembers how to use TSO EDIT, You may be the only one who will admit I, but I guaranty tha

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-09 Thread Edward Jaffe
Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: You mentioned the EAV volume. Do you have indications that this is part of the problem, i.e. the problem only occurs on EAV volumes? No. EAV has nothing to do with it. The problem can occur on volumes of any size. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software Internationa

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Edward Jaffe" wrote in message news:<4c0def64.9020...@phoenixsoftware.com>... > I can't for the life of me explain why this is not HIPER, but if you use > PDSEs in your shop I highly recommend APAR OA30338. > > Without this fix, we had broken PDSEs that could not be read, accessed, > or even d

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Barbara Nitz
>I would NOT suggest PDSE for large libraries that are constantly opened and >closed. >This has proven disastrous for an extremely large customer in the west with >CA7 JCL >Libraries (we're talking 22-30 seconds to get to the member and open it). >Recent PTFs >(in the last year or so), have fixed i

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
30338 for PDSE Users Mark Zelden wrote: > You can go back to past posts of mine and see... but my client has been > using Endevor controlled PDSEs for production for many years and we > haven't had any problems. This includes CICS DFHRPL libraries, batch > production JCL

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: You can go back to past posts of mine and see... but my client has been using Endevor controlled PDSEs for production for many years and we haven't had any problems. This includes CICS DFHRPL libraries, batch production JCL and PROCLIBs that were statically defined to JES2 in

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>We even have a small monoplex LPAR where IGDSMSxx is set to have the default >PO as PDSE (so even ISPF "work" data sets and profile data sets get created as PDSE, against IBM's recommendations). I used to be a big fan of PDSE, when it first came out. But, I've seen so many problems over the past

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:38:47 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>I suppose the pervasiveness of this issue depends entirely on how many PDSEs you have in your shop and how many of them get corrupted before >you notice there is an issue. > >And, over on the CICS-L, people are recommending PDSE for producti

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I suppose the pervasiveness of this issue depends entirely on how many PDSEs >you have in your shop and how many of them get corrupted before you notice there is an issue. And, over on the CICS-L, people are recommending PDSE for production DFHRPL libraries. I would think NOT! - Too busy drivi

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:17:05 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 8 June 2010 11:54, Clark Morris wrote: > >> And we knock Microsoft Windows.  Somehow the reliability and design of >> PDSE seems to be lacking.  For starters it isn't even a superset of >> PDS when it comes to function because it can't b

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Finnell wrote: In a message dated 6/8/2010 8:00:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, mzel...@flash.net writes: Reading the description, it looks like a problem that would only affect a single data set. How did it affect so many data sets and volumes in your environment? Yes. The proble

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 06/08/10 13:17, Tony Harminc wrote: On 8 June 2010 11:54, Clark Morris wrote: And we knock Microsoft Windows. Somehow the reliability and design of PDSE seems to be lacking. For starters it isn't even a superset of PDS when it comes to function because it can't be used for SYS1.NUCLEU

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc On 8 June 2010 11:54, Clark Morris wrote: And we knock Microsoft Windows. Somehow the reliability and design of PDSE seems to be lacking. For starters it isn't even a superset of PDS

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc > > On 8 June 2010 11:54, Clark Morris wrote: > > > And we knock Microsoft Windows.  Somehow the reliability and design of > > PDSE seems to be lacking.  For starters it isn't even a superset of > > PDS

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 June 2010 11:54, Clark Morris wrote: > And we knock Microsoft Windows.  Somehow the reliability and design of > PDSE seems to be lacking.  For starters it isn't even a superset of > PDS when it comes to function because it can't be used for > SYS1.NUCLEUS, SYS1.LINKLIB or SYS1.LPALIB. I dis

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Jacobs wrote: On 06/08/10 10:45, Edward Jaffe wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: Ed, I guess your shop isn't big enough or important enough. :-) It's not marked DATALOSS either. My guess is after this thread it will be. I just complained that it wasn't marked DATALOSS or HIPER. It seems li

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Clark Morris
gt;-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of >Mark Jacobs >Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 10:58 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users > >On 06/08/10 10:45, Edward Jaffe wrote: &

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:45:57 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: >Mark Zelden wrote: >> Ed, I guess your shop isn't big enough or important enough. :-) It's >> not marked DATALOSS either. My guess is after this thread it will be. >> > >I just complained that it wasn't marked DATALOSS or HIPER. It seem

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
acobs Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users On 06/08/10 10:45, Edward Jaffe wrote: > Mark Zelden wrote: >> Ed, I guess your shop isn't big enough or important enough. :-) >> It's not marked DATALOSS either.

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 06/08/10 10:45, Edward Jaffe wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: Ed, I guess your shop isn't big enough or important enough. :-) It's not marked DATALOSS either. My guess is after this thread it will be. I just complained that it wasn't marked DATALOSS or HIPER. It seems like DATALOSS applies

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Bob Shannon
> Maybe it's not HIPER because research shows nobody but me uses >PDSE. ;-) Unfortunately we have tons of them. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists..

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Zelden wrote: Ed, I guess your shop isn't big enough or important enough. :-) It's not marked DATALOSS either. My guess is after this thread it will be. I just complained that it wasn't marked DATALOSS or HIPER. It seems like DATALOSS applies for sure. And, if it was HIPER I would

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/8/2010 8:00:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, mzel...@flash.net writes: Reading the description, it looks like a problem that would only affect a single data set. How did it affect so many data sets and volumes in your environment? >> What was the one at AA back in ear

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users Far be it from me to debunk PDSE after all these years as one of IBMs flagship products

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Shane Ginnane
Far be it from me to debunk PDSE after all these years as one of IBMs flagship products, but I only use PDSE when I have to. Nice concept, badly implemented - has always looked like the marketing droids driving the techos. Shane ... >I can't for the life of me explain why this is not HIPER, bu

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 00:21:08 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: >I can't for the life of me explain why this is not HIPER, Ed, I guess your shop isn't big enough or important enough. :-) It's not marked DATALOSS either. My guess is after this thread it will be. > but if you use >PDSEs in your shop

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Barbara Nitz
>I can't for the life of me explain why this is not HIPER, but if you use >PDSEs in your shop I highly recommend APAR OA30338. Thanks for the heads-up! After reading the apar description and resolution, it doesn't even sound like IBM has found out *why* there was an overlaid eyecatcher. This soun

APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2010-06-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
I can't for the life of me explain why this is not HIPER, but if you use PDSEs in your shop I highly recommend APAR OA30338. Without this fix, we had broken PDSEs that could not be read, accessed, or even deleted and that led to abends in HSM, CATALOG errors, DADSM errors, corrupted VTOCs with