On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:38 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: >... Your >logic must honor (ie, allow) specific dataset placement when a volser is >coded. It may be part of a compound test.
Not necessarily. There are certainly times when ACS routines need to allow a data set to be placed on a non-sms volume, but that usually shouldn't be triggered just by the specification of a UNIT or VOLUME parameter. Remember that SMS was intended to work without ordinary users having to change their JCL. As a result, it is not uncommon for old JCL to still have UNIT and VOLUME information in them. SMS assigns the data regardless. Many shops have a pseudo storage class, such as "NONSMS" that is used to tell SMS that the data set is not to be managed. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
