Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-12-04 Thread Scott Ballentine
e forward. And... >And the lesson here is that if you have a job that requires a DISP=OLD on a >relative GDG in some step, then the only way to avoid the IEF211I is for >the FIRST use of the same relative GDG to also be DISP=OLD. I think that's right, that's the only way I can th

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-12-01 Thread Mark Zelden
23:17:48 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote: >JOB. If we were starting new we'd use STEP. > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >Don Leahy >Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2023 5:12 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: IE

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-12-01 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/1/2023 9:26 AM, Scott Ballentine wrote: (When upgrading, waiting isn't allowed, so we can only upgrade it if we are the only shared holder of the resource, otherwise the request fails.) I just learned something here, Scott. I always assumed an upgrade would wait just the way an ordinary

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-12-01 Thread Schmitt, Michael
locks. And the lesson here is that if you have a job that requires a DISP=OLD on a relative GDG in some step, then the only way to avoid the IEF211I is for the FIRST use of the same relative GDG to also be DISP=OLD. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-12-01 Thread Scott Ballentine
tion for the second step, etc. But... there is an ALLOCxx parmlib setting that matters here, called SDSN_WAIT WAITALLOC. The default is NO, and that tells Allocation that if it can't get the enqueue, cancel the job and issue IEF211I. If it's set to YES, it will wait - with an except

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-11-30 Thread Schmitt, Michael
JOB. If we were starting new we'd use STEP. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Don Leahy Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2023 5:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG [You don't

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-11-30 Thread Don Leahy
DISP=SHR. > > The second step has the same data set, but as exclusive: DD DSN= > > data.set.name(0),DISP=OLD. > > > > Someone was browsing the data set when the job started, so they were > > holding a shared enqueue. > > > > The first step ran, and then the second ste

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-11-30 Thread Mike Schwab
gt; > The first step ran, and then the second step failed with the IEF211I - > DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL error. > > > My understanding is that JES acquires the enqueues at the highest level > before starting the job, to prevent deadlocks. IBM says that because it is > a re

IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

2023-11-30 Thread Schmitt, Michael
the second step failed with the IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL error. My understanding is that JES acquires the enqueues at the highest level before starting the job, to prevent deadlocks. IBM says that because it is a relative GDG, it is unable to acquire the enqueue on the *absol

Re: IEF211I

2023-02-16 Thread Tom Marchant
The ENQ will be on the true name, not the alias name. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:50:47 -0600, Jason Cai wrote: >HI Shmuel > DSN is an alias name(a loadlib dataset). > Could you tell me how to find which another user reser

Re: IEF211I

2023-02-16 Thread Jason Cai
Hi Kolusu Thanks for your reply ! We will print this smf type today. Jason Cai -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: IEF211I

2023-02-16 Thread Jason Cai
HI Shmuel DSN is an alias name(a loadlib dataset). Could you tell me how to find which another user reserved this alias? Thanks a lot! Jason Cai ---

Re: IEF211I

2023-02-16 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>> Could you tell us which SMF type could diagnose this problem? Check this https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=us8r-using-smf-87-subtype-2-records-diagnose-application-problems-related-enq-deq-monitor-usage-enqdeqisgenqreserve-requests Thanks, Kolusu --

Re: IEF211I

2023-02-16 Thread Seymour J Metz
M-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jason Cai [ibmm...@foxmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2023 1:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IEF211I Hi all Production job gets this message - IEF211I jobname [procstep] stepname ddname[+ xxx] - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL Could you t

IEF211I

2023-02-15 Thread Jason Cai
Hi all Production job gets this message - IEF211I jobname [procstep] stepname ddname[+ xxx] - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL Could you tell us which SMF type could diagnose this problem? Thanks a lot Jason Cai