For any user, not just an SP, an explicit VOL=SER=foo can be used to select a volume with enough space for secondary extents. Again, I would suggest that using SMS with appropriate ACS is a better way.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Perryman <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2023 1:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: UNIX REXX LINKMVS TASKLIB? On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 18:21:28 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >>On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:10:18 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >>If you insist on using VOL=SER=foo for a temporary, it will work. >> >I use VOL=REF=ddfoo only when it's required. For true temporary datasets, a normal user will never code VOL=SER unless they screwed up. For sysprogs, there are a couple of disk utilities but these are exceptions that are used to identify a volume instead of containing actual temporary data.. For temporary datasets, when is there ever a need for VOL=REF unless you are working with a volume? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
