> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S.
>
> Chase, John wrote:
>
> > Doing some year-end cleanup and encountered a catalog entry for a
> > non-existent dataset: "HLQ.MLQ.LLQ(0)" (yes, the parentheses were
> > part of the DSN). While I was able to delete the entry by specifying
"HLQ.MLQ.*"
> > for the entryname in the IDCAMS DELETE NOSCRATCH command, I'm curious
> > how such a DSN could have been cataloged in the first place.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Someone provided DSN in apostrophes. Been there, seen that,
> even 9+ character qualifiers.
Hmmm....
IDCAMS SYSTEM SERVICES
DEF NVSAM (NAME('HLQ.DUMMY.GDG(0)') -
IDC3203I ITEM 'HLQ.DUMMY.GDG(0)' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS
DEVT(3390) VOL(339001))
IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS 12
Apparently not via IDCAMS DEFINE....
-jc-
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