Bill, Here are the results of a survey I did on RACF ERASE a few years ago.
http://www.rshconsulting.com/surveys/RSH_Consulting__RACF_Survey_019__ERASE.pdf Most installations don't use ERASE because they think there will be performance problems. There have been significant improvements in the performance of ERASE in z/OS 2.1 and 2.2. Regards, Bob Robert S. Hansel *** Celebrating 30 years working with RACF *** Lead RACF Specialist RSH Consulting, Inc. 617-969-8211 www.linkedin.com/in/roberthansel http://twitter.com/RSH_RACF www.rshconsulting.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RSH RACF Training - WebEx - RACF Audit & Compliance Roadmap - MAY 15-19, 2017 - RACF Level I Administration - APR 25-28, 2017 - RACF Level II Administration - NOV 13-17, 2017 - RACF Level III Admin, Audit, & Compliance - OCT 2-6, 2017 - RACF - Securing z/OS UNIX - OCT 23-27, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 05:14:38 -0500 From: Bill Wilkie <[email protected]> Subject: Erase on Scratch I have been looking into the Erase on Scratch capability to erase all extents of a data set but much of my research indicates that: 1. You must set up the data set names individually. 2. It will not erase &&Temp data set names unless you: a. Make the &&TEMP name a permanent name. b. Map the temp name to a permanent name already being erased. c. SETROPS ERASE(ALL) to erase all deleted data sets, which is very slow. My question is "Is anyone using it" and if so how is it working out? If you are not using it Why not? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
