<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > In a recent note, Mark Thomen said: > > > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:13:52 -0800 > > > > > > > Will it continue to allow invalid data set names to be > > > deleted/uncatalogued even when syntax checking is enabled? > > > > No - if an invalid data set name is in a catalog, you'll have to use other > > methods to remove it, such as VVDSFIX. > > > That strikes me as a foolish decision, imposing unnecessary > constraints on the customer. Was there any rationale for it > other than developer laziness?
Those decisions were made before I got into Catalog, so I can't justify (or excuse) them. However, we recognized the problem a few years ago (because of a particular product that was creating invalid names) and that's why we added the support to Catalog to prevent invalid data set names from being cataloged. We made it the default because we felt the problems people had with removing invalid data set names was difficult. Unless a shop has disabled the DSNCHECK feature, they should not get any invalid data set names cataloged. You might check to see if your installation has disabled the feature, and ask them to reenable it. I would hope you're not running a release before HDZ11G0 (z/OS 1.3) so the option should be available to you. Thanks, Mark Thomen Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
