On 9/23/2013 6:33 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Interesting. I think I also observed failed moves, but can't remember the fine details. What RC and messages did it gave in such cases?
The only error, but not RC, I remember vividly is the case where a PDS didn't have enough directory blocks to add another member, did the add to the directory anyway, causing the last name to be dropped from the directory. This was particularly annoying when doing a sysgen, as the ruined data set (usually LINKLIB or SVCLIB) became useless, and the sysgen had to be restarted from scratch, with larger allocations. Back then we had a practice of taking values from the storage estimates book, and increasing them at least three-fold.
And I think Mr. Gilmore had too many asterisks. The pattern I recall was to prepend "*." until a unique name resulted (IIRC, giving things like *.*.*.jobname.other). I had a home-grown utility, run daily, that scratched temporary data sets, and *. was one of the patterns it looked for, in addition to the more common SYSnnnnn.
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