When will ADRDSSU start to ENQUEUE on data sets?



Hi,

We encountered a problem on our production system.

A job was using DSS to backup a lot of data sets (logical dump) and we got
ADR321E for one extended format PS data set: the data set was not on the
supposed volume.

This job will run more than 3 hours and we found out that another job will
delete the data set and re-create it during that time (1.5 hours after the
dump job starts). It might be the cause of ADR321E.

And from the archive I found a similar thread:



It is entirely possible that when DFDSS was building his process list the

dataset was on the volume. Between that time the dataset probably got
deleted

and re-allocated. Naturally when DFDSS went to copy the dataset later on,
it

wasn't there. Hence the error message.

Moral of the story: Don't delete datasets until after DFDSS has copied
them.





Does that mean there is a time interval between DSS located the data set via
catalog and DSS actually places the ENQUEUE on it?



If it's true, from our experience this time interval for a big dump job is
very long. Thus give another job the chance to delete the target data set.
Do we have any method to ask DSS to ENQUEUE earlier?



Thanks.



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Johnny Luo

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