> "A PDS must be compressed to a DASD." Does that sentence have any meaning? I would have guessed that it means compressed to a sequential dataset on DASD, but a search suggests that it means that AMATERSE itself copies the members to a temporary DASD dataset.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CBT File 120 - A new article - Member BM1912DE On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:15:04 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Does AMATERSE let you terse an entire PDS? > From: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieav100/tseres.htm A PDS must be compressed to a DASD. (I suspect it must POINT to update a prefix later.) And: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieav100/terse.htm Partitioned data sets (PDS), and partitioned data sets extended (PDSE) that do not contain program objects. (I RTFM.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
