Hi,

The JCL abended even before reaching the Limit of 48k set in our Shop. on
every GDG deletion DD statement, we had 256 generations and it was same for
4 DD statements.

Is there any reason even if the TIOT size is set at 48k But the Job abends
before the DD statement reached 2454 ?

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Jake Anderson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> The TIOT started failing when the JCL started deleted a group of  GDGs.
> Using DISP=OLD,DELETE
>
> Jake
> On Jun 20, 2016 2:32 AM, "Greg Dyck" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 6/18/2016 11:03 AM, Jake Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to know if the DD chain has approached the end or it has
>>> approached the end of Chain. Is there a way to tweak the JCL to overcome
>>> TIOT exceeded values ?
>>>
>>
>> The TIOT is a fixed sized array of entries, not a chain.  The size is
>> defined in PARMLIB member ALLOCxx, with a maximum allowed size of 64K. Only
>> when an allocation request fails due to insufficient TIOT space do you know
>> it is full.
>>
>> The primary 'tweak' for SMS managed datasets that can reduce the space
>> used for each DD in the TIOT is to reduce the dynamic volume count (DYNVOL)
>> specification defined for the data class (
>> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1000065).
>>
>> It is possible to dynamically allocated datasets using the extended TIOT
>> (aka, XTIOT).  This requires the application be updated appropriately (
>> http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/oa34634.pdf).  For non-VSAM
>> datasets you must also change PARMLIB member DEVSUPxx to specify
>> NON_VSAM_XTIOT=YES.  VSAM datasets may be allocated using the XTIOT without
>> any changes to PARMLIB.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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