DSN='DOS SYSTEM RESIDENCE VOLUME'
Gee, that thought makes me feel old ...
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> How do you delete a dataset that has a invalid dataset name?
> I have one
> with a 2lq that has 9 characters? Don't ask me how it got there.
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//KILLIT EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1 DD DSN='THIS.ISAREALLY.BAD.DSN',
// DISP=(OLD,DELETE),
// UNIT=SYSALLDA,VOL=SER=volser
How did it get there? I don't know. I do know that pre-SMS, when I
wanted to really freak somebody out, I would do:
//BADDSN EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1 DD DSN='This Is A really Weird Name',
// DISP=(NEW,KEEP),SPACE=(CYL,0),
// UNIT=SYSALLDA,VOL=SER=volser
I can't do that anymore on my system because the DATACLAS ACS routine,
which is invoked even for nonSMS datasets, looks at the DSN and reports
it as "NON STANDARD". But having a upper/lower case DSN with blanks
would totally freak out people. I learned it in the 1970s from a DOS/VS
shop which had a file name: "WATER MONSTER FILE", believe it or not!
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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
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