On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:59:37 -0400, Scott Rowe wrote: >I think you are a bit confused, HDELETE does not have a NONVSAM option, IDCAMS >does. At the time of a delete, IDCAMS cannot assume that HSM is the migrator, >it could just as easily be FDRABR or some other product. > Thank you for improving my understanding.
But still ... It appears that the consensus of this thread is that in the absence of the NONVSAM option, IDCAMS converts a DELETE request for a migrated data set to HDELETE. If IDCAMS doesn't know whether the migrator is HSM, FDRABR, or some other product, how does it know what component to issue the converted DELETE to? If the interfaces are compatible and, as I still believe, the migrator must know the VSAM-ness in order to perform the deletion without recall, it could as well return that characteristic in response to an HLIST or equivalent API query. There's considerable value in avoiding recall of an entire data set in order to obtain one bit of information. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
