In a recent note, Patrick O'Keefe said: > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:35:23 -0500 > > As part of an ESP I'm giving feedback on the product's SMP process. > I complained that UNIT and VOLUME weren't needed on DDDEFs if the datasets > were cataloged (and that their sample allocation job cataloged them). > I was told that IBM's product packaging rules require UNIT and VOLUME on > all DDDEFs. > I suppose IBM hasn't yet heard about SMS.
> Is that true? If so, how do most shops deal with this? For years I've > just removed the UNIT and VOL parms. Is there another way? I can't tell > Perhaps the parameters are there as placeholders for file tailoring. Can you tailor them to blank? Comment them out? (I suppose this what you mean when you say you "removed" them.) Is that not satisfactory? > from the fine manual whether VOLUME() is valid and haven't tried it yet. > I suspect not. > Nor have I tried putting in an SMS-managed volid and hope that SMS changes > it as needed. Would that work? > >From much recent experience, if I use an SMS-managed HLQ, I need neither UNIT nor VOLUME. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
