IBM program ISRLEMX dataset limitation.

surfspn · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:25 pm

I am trying to use IBM program ISRLEMX for expanding copybooks for a compile but have run into a limitation(it seems to be 49 datasets) on the ISRLCODE dd. I was hoping there is so way to allow more datasets in ISRLCODE dd statement?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:58 pm

what is the error message You get !
are You sure You are not hitting some extent limit ?

if you do not post meaningful info we can only guess!

and anyway more than a handful of dataset imply a hard job in keeping things in the proper place

surfspn · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:16 pm

Thanks for your reply I get the message Input RECFM not consistent which after testing a few ways to resolve it i found that message not to be true. When I run the step with 49 datasets in the dd isrlcode it runs ok when i up it to 50 I get that error message. This is why i asked if thee was a way to override the program to accept more.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:20 pm

You did not reply to my question!
post the complete( or a meaningful part of) sysout with the messages properly displayed
not an extract of them, please!

surfspn · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:32 pm

i mean that really is the message.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:08 pm

please post the full output... using the code tags as You can see from Your edited post,
what program are You running, ISRLEMX directly or thru some interface
what is the program <thing> return code ?

I also checked the manuals but there is no mention of <scanned> datasets limitation
what is needed is just consistent lrecl and recfm

I just searched the ISPF manuals and nowhere there is a message with that wording

and I did the same for the TSO manuals with the same result

so unless You post something meaningful very little can be done

also note that extents are something different from datasets
a dataset can be allocated in multiple extents so,

I might be wrong but , IIRC there is a limit of 255 extents for a single ddname

1 dataset with 255 extents vs 255 dataset with one extent each

surfspn · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:21 pm

Thanks for taking the time to look at this but i'm not sure what you mean by meaningful output..there really isnt much to see. but here is the failed job.

Akatsukami · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:36 pm

surfspn · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:40 pm

Hi it really doesn't matter which dataset i remove seem as though 49 total in concatention is fine but 50 total is not.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:54 pm

first of all there are a few issues to fix