On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:40:45 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>I thought from discussions here a few years ago that IBM has provided a
>facility that supports renaming of an ENQUEUEd DSN, in the VTOC, after
>requesting confirmation from the operators' console that that DSN on that
>volume is *not* the one to which the ENQ pertains.
>
>Don't know how it interacts with catalog, SMS, indexed VTOCs, automated
>operations, ...  This amounts to institutionalizing the technique of zapping
>the VTOC while placing the integrity burden on a human being.

Yes, via the RACF profiles previously mentioned. But someone else pointed out 
the line in the documentation stating "Does not work for SMS-managed data sets."

I have no idea why that restriction exists. I don't recall hearing about it 
when we in RACF designed our part of that support.

-- 
Walt

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