Re: SAVLIB SAVACT(*SYSDFN)

This is a formula for disaster.  You run the risk of "posting a debit
without a credit", and journaling in necessary.  If you send me private
mail, I will send you mu handouts from COMMON.

Al

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We acquiesce our systems (except for an extremely rare job or two) to do
our backups.  Instead of skipping critical objects (current technique)
that are locked by these particular jobs we thought of changing from
SAVACT(*NO) to SAVACT(*SYSDFN).

What concerns (if any) should I have?
- Will it increase the overall length of the save like getting to
checkpoint status or some such thing?  Although I believe that *SYSDFN
says no checkpoint processing is done.
- Instead of skipping the object, will it now save it?
- Instead of skipping the object, will it now wait forever for it to free
up?

Other information:
No journalling.
"Hopefully" low probability of out of sync files by these particular jobs.
 Meaning the odds are low that the job would be stuck in between an update
to the order header and an update to the order line.
IFS usage by these jobs is nonexistent.
These jobs are not expected to be a nightly occurrence.  Therefore a few
nights a week the object in question is currently backed up.  Just skipped
on rare occasions.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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