On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 06:48:44 -0500, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) >> >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on >> 08/08/2005 >> at 07:31 AM, "Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> >Since z/OS 1.3 (and earlier, via maintenance), PDSEs no >> longer need to be cataloged or SMS-managed. >> >> My recollection is that they require an NVR and hence must be >> cataloged, even if not SMS managed. > >We have a few PDSEs on our SYSRES pairs (z/OS 1.5) that are indirectly >cataloged -- so one copy is "always" uncataloged. Also works for HFSes. PDSE - yes, HFS - no. How do you mount an uncataloged HFS? There is no way to specify a VOLSER. You *can* indirectly catalog an HFS and mount / use it if it is the cataloged version. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

