What an honor to work with Tron Guy!
"Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 at 10:44 AM, Pew, Curtis G <[email protected]> wrote: > [Note: Jay and I work on the same team; he joined us earlier this year.] > > On Aug 5, 2025, at 4:22 AM, Dejan Stamatovic [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi Jay, > > Unit=VIO is not mandatory on a z/OS system. > > If you like to use it so much, you can reintroduce it for the sake of old JCL. > > I have seen many customers replace this by using DFSMS ACS routines and > directing unit=VIO to temporary data sets allocation usually using a separate > DFSMS Storage group. > > unit=VIO is anyway not to be used for allocation of DFSORT temporary data > sets so if you stop using it, this might even simplify your z/OS environment > by not using an additional esoteric name. > > This is up to you. > > In fact, “The SMS ACS routines will redirect it to VIO if you just leave the > UNIT out” was my initial response. The problem is Jay is installing a vendor > product that has “UNIT(VIO)” hard coded in a call to BPXWDYN. To which my > response was, “do they know it’s the 21st century now?” > > > -- > Curtis Pew, Mainframe Specialist > The University of Texas at Austin | ET Campus Solutions > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
