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TMSOSCAT

TMSOSCAT is a reporting utility that identifies possible discrepancies between the TMC and the system catalog. This program allows the sort sequence to be specified in a control statement. The report is sorted either by data set name, volume sequence number, file sequence number, volume serial number, and type of record, or by volume serial number, volume sequence number, file sequence number, data set name, and type of record.

TMC fields reported include data set name, volume serial number, volume sequence number, file sequence number, expiration date and an error code. The operating system catalog fields reported include date set name, volume serial number, volume sequence number and file sequence number. An error code is the last field and indicates a discrepancy. The last page of the report is an error summary that provides totals and a description of each error code.

TMSOSCAT can be used to set the new TMISCAT and DNSBISCA on all files currently cataloged. This usage of TMSOSCAT should be done once on each system sometime after upgrading to a r11 version. Until this has been done on all systems sharing the TMC, the new TMOOPT option, OCATLG, should be left as YES (the default). Once TMSOSCAT has been run to synchronize the operating system catalogs and the TMC on all systems sharing the TMC and Audit files, the OCTLG option can be changed to NO.

To run TMSOSCAT so that the new flag bits are set correctly, no IDCAMS or IEHLIST input is required or accepted and the SYSIN control statements are ignored. Run TMSOSCAT with a PARM of RESYNC,DETAIL on one system. When this is complete, run TMSOSCAT with a PARM of SYNC,DETAIL on all other systems. When all other of the TMSOSCAT utilities are complete you can change the OCTLG option to NO and remove the TMSCTLG (and EARL) step(s) from your daily CA 1 job stream.

You may want to consider executing this program on a regular basis to help keep the two databases synchronized.

Note: For more information about TMSOSCAT, see the Utilities and Reports Reference Guide.