If you enter "TSO HELP DEFNVSAM" on your command line, you might see:
FUNCTION -
THE DEFINE COMMAND CAN BE USED TO CATALOG A NONVSAM DATA SET IN A
VSAM CATALOG.
SYNTAX -
DEFINE NONVSAM
( NAME('ENTRYNAME')
VOLUMES('VOLSER' ...)
DEVICETYPES('DEVTYPE' ...)
COLLECTION
FILESEQUENCENUMBERS('NUMBER' ...)
OWNER('OWNERID')
TO('DATE') | FOR('DAYS')
RECATALOG | NORECATALOG )
CATALOG('CATNAME/PASSWORD')
REQUIRED - NONVSAM, NAME, DEVICETYPES, VOLUMES
DEFAULTS - NONE
HTH,
Greg Shirey
Ben E. Keith Company
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of willie bunter
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 8:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: IDCAMS QUESTION - RECATALOG
Good Day,
Can you spot my error. I am trying to define the VVDS to a specif USERCAT. Is
the RECATALOG option allowed?
DEF NVSAM -
(NAME(SYS1.VVDS.VPROM56) -
DEVT(3390) -
VOL(PROM56)) -
CATALOG(SYS1.ICFCAT.SYSPRM) -
RECATALOG
IDC3211I KEYWORD 'RECATALOG' IS IMPROPER
IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS 12
IDC0002I IDCAMS PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 12
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