On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:05:57 -0400, Jim Mulder <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 > Sure hope that this "enhancement" will be implemented as option-configurable to ensure some choice for "prior behavior" opportunity, for whatever reason may come about. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
