If you enable 'Display Catalog Name' on DSLIST, it should tell you which catalog it found it in.
>>> Paul Ip <[email protected]> 10/12/2009 10:06 AM >>> Yeah, I also expect a VVDS should have been cataloged under either MCAT or UCAT. However, there is a VVDS, it cannot be shown when I input 'SYS1.VVDS' under DSLIST, but it can be found if I input 'SYS1.VVDS.Vxxxxxx' (full name) under DSLIST. Even the VVDS can be seen under DSLIST with full name search, I didn't see a "*VSAM*" Cluster entry (only a Data Component entry there). In addition, when I issue a 'LISTC ENT(/) ALL' command against the Data Component of that VVDS, it can't tell me where the VVDS is cataloged. So that's why I suspect the VVDS is not cataloged anywhere..... Paul On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:18:15 -0500, Tom Marchant <m42tom- [email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:40:42 -0500, Paul Ip wrote: >> >>I know VVDS can be created Implicltly when a NON-SMS VSAM or a SMS >>VSAM/nonVSAM is created under a 'NEW' volume. >>However, It seems to me that the VVDS (an ESDS itself) is not required to be >>cataloged (meanwhile, some of VVDS are under catalog [MCAT] since we've >>run a IDCAMS DEFINE Explicltly) > >IIRC, the VVDS must be cataloged in any catalog that contains data sets on >that volume which are in the VVDS. If you create a data set that is >cataloged in the master catalog, the VVDS will be cataloged in the master >catalog. If you create a data set that is cataloged in a user catalog, the >VVDS wil be cataloged in the user catalog. > >> >>Can anyone give me an advice on which manual tells us that a VVDS (an ESDS >>itself) can be defined without under a catalog (while Using Datasets just tell >>not have to be under Master Catalog) > >You might try "managing catalogs" or "using data sets". Or do a search for >VVDS in the DFSMS bookshelf. > >-- >Tom Marchant > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 CONFIDENTIALITY/EMAIL NOTICE: The material in this transmission contains confidential and privileged information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you have received this material in error and that any forwarding, copying, printing, distribution, use or disclosure of the material is strictly prohibited. If you have received this material in error, please (i) do not read it, (ii) reply to the sender that you received the message in error, and (iii) erase or destroy the material. Emails are not secure and can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by email. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
