Bruce Black wrote:
Can't remember the command to remove the entry from the base but keep
the dataset or, for another example get rid altogether.
a DEFERRED generation is not really part of the base. In the catalog,
there is a GDG sphere record for the base, with all the generations
within it. A deferred gen is cataloged outside that sphere as a normal
non-VSAM dataset. However, catalog knows that it is related to the
base. If you want to unrelate it, I think you can just rename it to a
non-GDG. However, there is a flag in the NVR that says "I am a deferred
generation" (probably in the catalog as well) and I don't know what
trouble that might cause later.
AFAIK, deferred dataset can be tricky:
// DD DSN=GDG.BASE(+1),DISP=(NEW,CATLG)
will not create new dataset, existing deferred da=GDS will be used instead.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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