During research if the file was never backed up and the customer was trying to determine if that file was empty or not at a certain time, the customer would have to guess that if the file is not backed up then it was empty. I would rather the file be there empty or not so no guessing was involved.
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Schwarz Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SMS - HSM invalid DSORG Assigning a dataclass to a data set fills in the DCB parameters only during allocation. If the data set already exists, it has no affect. But if the data set is never opened, why do you want HSM to process it? It contains nothing. Mark Steely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the information. I will define a dataclass for these files. Thanks --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
