Wow. I'd never want to follow such a, well, non-standard, practice. But, to each his own. Ever consider using SYMBOLICRELATE??
Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Chris Hoelscher <[email protected]>wrote: > we have run into may situations where when we are upgrading to a new > release of a product (say IDMS or DB2) - we warn all users that ad-hoc > jobs that access the runtime-loadlibs will mis-behave during the upgrade > additionally - many jobs have JCL included for libraries they simply don;t > need > > > however - many dont listen and submit jobs anyhow - we chose not to take > the time to cancel these jobs so we can rename or delete - we just empty > the PDS and then re-load with the newer contents! > > > > Chris Hoelscher > Senior IDMS & DB2 Database Administrator > Humana Inc > 502-476-2538 > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

