Not sure about Rexx; they could be invoked by another program or even clist - so I don't see why not.
Yes, the entire documentation set is available online. Including a new html format for easier online access. Russell Witt L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cataloguing fake tape datasets? On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 23:48:25 -0500, Russell Witt wrote: >You could create dummy entries for a secondary file that does not really >exist. Let's say you have a tape with 15 data sets on it; you can use >TMSAGGR or TMSUDSNB to create a file-16 in the TMC (chained to file-15 on >that specific volume). Now, when the tape is scratched all secondary files >are un-cataloged (including this dummy entry). However, the file does not >actually exist on the tape; so a tape-map of the volume will NOT find it.VVee > >If you create a catalog entry that does not exist on the tape and you do not >update the TMC however, you are correct that the dummy file will not be >un-cataloged when the tape is scratched (since there is no pointer back to >it). That is why you need to have a dummy entry in the TMC. That will allow >it to be un-cataloged when the volume is scratched. > Thinking about this, it might be easiest in the cases where I create the tape to leave the step that creates and catalogs file-16 as-is and add: //STEP EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSUT2 DD LABEL=(46,BLP),DISP=(,KEEP),VOL=REF=FILE-15,EXPDT=98000 //SYSUT1 DD DUMMY Are TMSAGGR and TMSUDSNB callable from Rexx? Is the CA-1 doc available online? Thanks for your advice, 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
