jcl to cancel userid's that holds dataset and start job

chetpune007 · New User Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 1 Location: bangalore

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Hi,

On Mainframe (tool CA7) while the job X is running sometimes we may not be able to access $AVRS, we get a message like $AVRS VSAM KSDS FILE is already in use, then we have to go to Spool and cancel user id which are active, once we cancel them the job takes the backup of $AVRS.

This job X basically RECREATES THE $AVRS VSAM KSDS FILE, (like deleting the last week's backup), RELOADS IT TO ELIMINATE CA/CI SPLITS AND RESTARTS $AVRS.

So most of the time I need to check for contentions and cancel userids and make the job X to run..So,I need a solution for this So that I can create seperate jcl and thereafter no manual intervention is required.

Help Much Appreciated.

Thanks,
Chetan

expat · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:54 pm

Are CI/CA splits such an issue now with the modern DASD arrays

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:56 pm

when the vsam is not defined properly, probably

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:08 pm

SAVRS uses KSDS and RRDS files, so it does some funky things to keep them in sync. However, I don't think we delete / define the SAVRS files more than two or three times a year. I cannot imagine under what circumstances someone would need to do this weekly.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:13 pm

"That's the way it has always been done". . .