Managing SMTP jobs

Hi all,

Grateful for any suggestions,

cheers,

Clare

To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Reclaim storage question

These days most of the anomalies that RCLSTG uncovers on our systems would be invisible otherwise. They mostly involve objects left in QTEMP after jobs fail in some spectacular fashion. (Also those re-orgs IBM's database files.) As the system and O/S have advanced over the years I've seen fewer and fewer damaged objects, especially since IBM started including batteries to keep main-store from being wiped out so that MI instructions could be completed. That's not to say that such things can't happen anymore, but these days RCLSTG mostly recovers storage on disk that would otherwise have been lost forever.

In our shop we're more suspicious of RCLSTG fouling things up then we are of GO-SAVE-Option-21 completely failing on a damaged object. We don't have operators or a weekend staff so we developed an application that first does a GO-SAVE-Option-21 and then optionally does a RCLSTG (and an IPL when there are PTFs to be applied). We've done a RCLSTG on all of our systems every weekend for 3 1/2 years and we've never had a problem. Only recently we had to stop doing it on one system because the IFS portion of the save was taking 3 hours to complete, but once we resolve this problem we'll start doing RCLSTG again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Snyder

 To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
 Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:01 AM
 Subject: Reclaim storage question


 Since the reclaim storage question has come up again, I am wondering if
 I need to do another soon. The last one I ran was on a previous box
 (820) and that was on Feb 1, 2004. I have not done one on this new box
 (520). That was on v5r1 and we are now on v5r3. We have had no abnormal
 shutdowns since on this 520.

 We went to this 520 last October so I am not overly concerned about
 running one, but thought I would ask.

 Any guidelines or hints as to how often to run one if things are going
 smooth, as they normally do? Is there are value to watch for a certain
 threshold to trigger one?

 Dave




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