Hi Jason, Although it may not be exactly what you were looking for or thinking of, IBM added a parameter a few years back to the INIT command of ICKDSK called NODSEXIST via PTFs for APAR: PK83260 . Per the Comments in the APAR:
The INIT command will terminate with message ICK32179I DATA SETS EXIST ON VOLUME if NODSEXIST was specified and data sets other than the index data set and/or VVDS exist on the volume. IBM implemented that function on the CKD version of the INIT command only. As originally implemented, that operand was not the default in the ICKDSF INIT command, so you had to explicitly specify it. However, I see that IBM has recently added support in ICKDSF and z/OS ( looks like in z/OS V2R1 and V2R2 ) so that you can use the DEVSUPxx Parmlib member to control whether that parameter would be a "system wide" default via APAR PI67283 . As a "side note", I also noticed that the support added to the DEVSUPxx Parmlib member for the NODSEXIST operand created an unintended consequence to the ICKDSF INSPECT and TRKFMT commands. See APAR PI84856 . When I read about this NODSEXIST function, I was initially hesitant to use it because, well its the ICKDSF INIT command, which is somewhat destructive, so say the least. I would have felt more comfortable to have that function of the somewhat "less destructive" ICKDSF commands, like INSPECT or TRKFMT. HTH Glenn Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
