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Hello,

i have a dataset with 9 932 248 and 1294125 tarcks
I just want to check the integrity of the dataset.
My dataset is unreadable because of this message :



so before doing the copy, i'd like to check the dataset.
I did it with : ICETOOL



The ICETOOL abended, it means the Dataset is not correct but it took too much elapse time :

TOTAL CPU TIME= .75 TOTAL ELAPSED TIME= 22.87

I'd like to know if there a programm taht could check a Huge dataset quikly (faster than PGM=ICETOOL)

Thank's for your help.

that' s not an error that the application program can solve by itself
let Your storage support handle it

but it took too much elapse time

Elapsed time is impacted by a large number of factors (such as the size of the data set, the number of address spaces -- batch jobs, TSO users, started tasks and possibly OMVS processes -- executing in the LPAR, their relative priorities compared to yours, how busy the CPU is, the WLM (Workload Manager) policy, contention for the channel and for the device, and so forth). Your site support group can assist in optimizing elapsed time, but in general there's not too much you can do to change it. And if your data set has millions of tracks, it is not going to execute in a short amount of elapsed time no matter what you do -- it takes a certain amount of time to read those millions of tracks and that time is an irreducible minimum! Also note that elapsed time can be drastically impacted by these factors -- I've seen jobs that normally run in 3 minutes take as much as 5 hours when submitted while the CPU is running 100% busy.

Hello,

i found a really simple program that can check easily the dataset : SYSGENER with a DUMMY.
It abended when the dataset is unreadable. And it takes 1 munutes elaps

TOTAL CPU TIME= .32 TOTAL ELAPSED TIME= 1.00