On Mon, 21 May 2007 20:17:43 +0000, John P Donnelly wrote: > How might we delete this little bugger? > > > >SYS1.DFDSS.DEFRAG..........PRD9LF.DUMMY
You restart the DFDSS DEFRAG job that was interrupted, per the z/OS DFSMSdss Storage Administration Reference manual: DFSMSdss Temporary Data Set Names DFSMSdss must allocate temporary data sets to perform certain functions such as copy and restore. The high-level qualifiers of those data set names can be protected, and your installation must ensure that these temporary data sets can be allocated. ...one paragraph skipped... Special DEFRAG data set Allocated by DFSMSdss to contain information about the DASD extents that are being moved. The data set name is in the following format: SYS1.DFDSS.DEFRAG.xxxxxxxx.volser.DUMMY where xxxxxxxx represents eight bytes of X'FF', and volser is the volume serial number of the volume being defragmented. The data set is deleted when the DEFRAG operation completes successfully. If the DEFRAG operation is interrupted (for example, when DFSMSdss is cancelled), this data set is left on the volume, and: * You must run a new DEFRAG operation. * You may have to convert an index VTOC (IXFORMAT) volume to nonindexed (OSFORMAT) before rerunning the DEFRAG operation. Otherwise, the volume free-space values may be incorrect. * The hexadecimal qualifier is used to prevent you from deleting this data. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
