In a recent note, Gilbert Saint-Flour said: > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:48:07 -0500 > > If I'm not mistaken, CVAF seems to behave similarly when the VTOC is > indexed. You can allocate a data set with any dsname you want on a > DASD volume that doesn't have an indexed VTOC, but when there's an > index, I believe you can only allocate a data set that has a "valid" > dsname because the index is a hierarchical structure, like a CVOL. > As an experiment, I've created and kept a data set with a noncomforming name. How can I, as a user, determine whether the VTOC naming it is indexed? I had hoped ISPF 3.4 would tell me this sort of thing, but I don't see it.
Did CVOL ever impose a five-level limit, or was this an urban legend? I don't see why the hierarchial design need be reflected in syntax restrictions on the names. Couldn't the service simply break each name, regardless of content, into equal size pieces (e.g. 9 characters) and use those as levels? there should be no need to use periods as level separators. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
