>A "legitimate" rename operation should establish the new >catalog entry as required by the alias associated with the new >high-level qualifier(s).
Never came across that problen and never questioned the behaviour, but had I been asked before this thread appeared my answer would have been it is "correctly" recataloged, in a different catalog it the new HLQ requires it. Now I read here that ALTER NEWNAME VSAM and non-SMS managed will not necessarily recatalog to the correct catalog. "How will I then be able to ever find my data set again...." was my first thought. Here is what the IDCAM manuals says about ALTER...NEWNAME: +----------------------------------------------------------------------- -+ | Figure 5. How NEWNAME Resolves When Change of Catalog is Required | +-----------------------+------------------------+---------------------- -+ | Data Set Type | SMS | non-SMS | +-----------------------+------------------------+---------------------- -+ | VSAM | ALTER | ALTER | | | unsuccessful--entry | successful--entry | | | not renamed | remains in the source | | | | catalog | +-----------------------+------------------------+---------------------- -+ | non-VSAM with no | ALTER | ALTER | | aliases | successful--entry is | successful--entry | | | recataloged in target | remains in the source | | | catalog. | catalog | +-----------------------+------------------------+---------------------- -+ | non-VSAM with aliases | ALTER | ALTER | | | unsuccessful--entry | successful--entry | | | not renamed | remains in the source | | | | catalog | +-----------------------+------------------------+---------------------- -+ | GDS with no aliases | ALTER | ALTER | | | successful--entry is | unsuccessful--entry | | | recataloged in target | not renamed | | | catalog. | | +-----------------------+------------------------+---------------------- -+ | GDS with aliases | ALTER | ALTER | | | unsuccessful--entry | unsuccessful--entry | | | not renamed | not renamed | +-----------------------+------------------------+---------------------- -+ | Note: The source catalog is the catalog containing the original | | entry. The target catalog is the catalog in which the new name | | would normally be cataloged according to a catalog alias | | search. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------- -+ That was my lesson-for-the-day Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
