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See Announcement letter https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS222-092/index.html&request_locale=en
The Administering output from a CICS region topic in the CICS Knowledge Centers for releases 5.2 to 5.6 has been updated with guidance on how to spin off output datasets. Here is the 5.6 version https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.6.0/administering/admin-region-output.html
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The original requester and other comments have mentioned several techniques that sites have used. I recall another where a dynamic allocation product was used and the TD queue was defined as a GDG dataset.
I concur with the idea that a CICS-architected solution would be beneficial. A command to invoke the switch could satisfy both on-demand needs and routine (e.g. time-of-day) needs with auto operation tool.
Since we migrated from JES3 to JES2 we use the SPIN function. It allows us to SPIN the sysout file dynamically and requires no changes in the CICS configuration. We then archive the output in our archive product (BETA92).
Example :
//CEEMSG DD SYSOUT=*,SPIN=(UNALLOC,2M)
For output extrapartition TD queues, this can generally be handled via dynamic allocation (by specifying a SYSOUTCLASS and omitting the DD statement from the startup JCL); a periodic transaction could then close/open each relevant TD queue to "spin" the output and allocate a fresh instance. For the JES allocated sysout, this gets more involved, and is where addition of CICS-driven spin controls would be most useful.