One could presumably assign tokens to match the existing numbers associated with those esoterics,
Bill On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:14:17 -0800, Gabe Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark, > If Tokens were assigned, wouldn't any current cataloged dataset using >an esoteric have to be uncataloged, then cataloged? Or at least assign >a Token that matches the entry in the table. > >gabe > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Mark Zelden >Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:09 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning > >On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:16:58 -0600, Big Iron ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> >>The problem with esoterics in the catalog is that there is a sequence >>number included in the device type entry, so if you remove one, all the > >>other ones with larger sequence numbers will change; so if there are >>esoterics in catalog entries, they may point to a different esoteric. > >This hasn't been an issue since MVS/ESA V5. You assign tokens (a >number) in the HCD along with the esoteric, so if you remove an esoteric >the tokens for the ones that remain don't change. > >If you currently have no tokens assigned in your HCD, just assign them. > >Regards, > >Mark >-- >Mark Zelden >Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America >and Farmers Insurance Group >mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's >MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
