IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 06/07/2009 10:00:30 AM:
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:16:40 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: > > >>... when IEFBR14 is used to delete a data set ... > >>Haven't we agreed here that IEFBR14 doesn't delete data sets? Hasn't > >>IBM learned this yet? > > > >To my way of thinking, the statement in the preview is correct and > >accurate. (Almost) Everyone at some point or other *uses* an EXEC > >PGM=IEFBR14 job to delete data sets. The statement does not say that > >IEFBR14 itself does the deletion. > > > The statement is needlessly restrictive and misleading to the novice > (are there z/OS novices nowadays?). It could as well be any program > as IEFBR14, or any other means of allocation (couldn't it?), such as > TSO ALLOCate, BPXWDYN, or SVC 99. Simply, substuting "allocation" > for "IEFBR14" would have been more precise. At least the writer could > have included "for example" in the sentence. The enhancement in z/OS 1.11 is that Batch Allocation/Unallocation processing is checking to see if the program name is exactly 'IEFBR14', and if so, for migrated data sets whose DISP is DELETE, it simply HDELETEs them without HRECALLing them. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
