On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:05:27 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >I do not have a way of listing the APAR so I do not know what it says >to do.
Really? GIYF http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&cad=b&fp=1&q=II13354 >If I wanted to ALIAS entries to point at a new name, just >delete and then define them. I think you;d find that all of the VSAM data sets in that catalog were broken after you did that. The catalog information for a data set is not stored entirely in the BCS. Some of it is in the VVDS. And the VVDS entry (at least for VSAM) contains the name of the catalog that the data set is cataloged in. >OTOH, as has been pointed out, just >deleting and redefining (using the same name) the usercat (my >backup/restore method) would also work. It would almost work, but not quite. >As I stated, there does >however the method, need to be some way to freeze the contents of the >usercat while you either redefine or replace it. Yes, it is important to prevent all accesses to the catalog by other users during the process. The APAR describes how to use LOCK for that. You are not doing anyone a service by providing an overly simplified procedure that omits the critical information of how to do it as an alternative to the procedure to do it correctly. Just my opinion. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
