Pommier, Rex wrote: >Yes I know this might be considered an ISPF type question but I'll ask the >gurus here first. :-)
Yes! IBM-MAIN is _the_ place to cure all z/OS oddities... ;-) > However, it failed at 0-dark-30 this morning with an E37 on the output > statement. Please post the full E37 message and also any other messages too, including any messages from your VTS. >That's OK, but what happened next is why I'm posing the question. To rerun >the job, the developer on call simply changed the JCL to point the OUTDD to >the VTS and restarted the job. Ask him why and on what (reason) is that change based? >The job promptly stopped after mounting the 3 tapes (2 input and the OUTDD) >and did absolutely nothing until it timed out. Any messages from job/VTS? Any other Output? How did it timed out? Do you see any waiting replies or GRS contention? > So here is my question. Is there a limitation or a problem with sending > ISRSUPC output to a tape based dataset? >I see in the ISPF user guide that " Note: SuperC does not support tape data >sets.", but why would that extend to a simple report output dataset? Yes, I also found that and got this annoying/unflattering advice next to it: "copy the data set to DASD using IEBCOPY, then process the DASD copy". Granted that is for datasets to be compared, not OUTDD, but be gentle with me... ;-) >So at this point, my question is more of a "why can't I send the sequential >output to a tape dataset, because that just doesn't make sense to me" type >question. Perhaps, as a workaround, you can send the OUTDD to a temp dsn and then copy in second step the temp dsn to VTS? Beside space issues, I know above workaround is a PITA and I hate it to create a new step to bypass a [stupid] problem. >Any thoughts? Paul's reply is more puzzling for me. I need to experiment with his painful scenario about DELTA... Interesting. Perhaps your problem is PMR-able? Perhaps you should go to PMR land and shake big blue awake? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
