Although Paul may be able to use more chicanery to add an SDSF REXX batch step to look at the joblog of the running job, get the tape mount message, and create the IDCAMS DEFINE NONVSAM input and then run IDCAMS in a subsequent step.
Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:56:15 -0500, Field, Alan C. <[email protected]> wrote: >Probably not - this is all SYSIN data so would require manual data entry >to plug in the volser > >The 98000 is a convention used to tell one's tape management system to >ignore the volser and not try and manage it. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 15:49 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Cataloguing fake tape datasets? > >On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:36:38 -0500, Field, Alan C. wrote: > >>IDCAMS DEFINE NONVSAM ? >> >>DEFINE NONVSAM (NAME(your.dsn ) + >>VOL(H40000) + >>FSEQN( 1) + >>DEVT(3490) ) >> >Great! Thanks!! > >(Well, almost. Can I do this with a referback (VOL=REF) to the >step that created the tape, all in the same job, and eliminate >the Post-It entirely?) > >If I use FSEQN(999) to make the chicanery transparent will >anyone check? EXPDT=98000 presumably disables most of this; I >think our auto-ops is trained to ignore it. > >Thanks again, >gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
