Thanks. That was it. Mark Jacobs
Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, July 31, 2020 11:58 AM, Gormley, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL: This email originated from outside of the > organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the > sender and know the content is safe. > > When dealing with volume entries in IDCAMS I believe you have to add a 'V' in > front of the volser name - VDS0001 > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of > Mark Jacobs > > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 4:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: IDCAMS Alter volumeentry not working > > We have an MTL that's not under RMM control. The MTL internally scratches > tapes that have reached their expiration date daily, but the entries in the > volcat are showing them as private. When I attempt to manually alter them to > scratch status, IDCAMS isn't liking either format of the command (that I've > read in the FM). What am I doing wrong? > > ALTER DS0001 VOLUMEENTRY USEATTRIBUTE(SCRATCH) LIBRARYNAME(DEVLVTL) IDC3012I > ENTRY DS0001 NOT FOUND IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 - REASON > CODE IS IGG0CLEG-42 IDC3003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 > > ALTER VOLUMEENTRY(DS0001) USEATTRIBUTE(SCRATCH) LIBRARYNAME(DEVLVTL) IDC3203I > ITEM 'VOLUMEENTRY(DS0001)' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS IDC3202I ABOVE > TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS 12 > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > GPG Public Key - > https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
