On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:17:52 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg <hal9...@panix.com> wrote:
>At 17:05 -0700 on 09/26/2009, Stuart Holland wrote about IDCAMS >delete with mask: > >>The delete with mask feature currently defaults to only looking in the >>master catalog. You have to code the CATALOG parameter to have it look >>anywhere else. There is an APAR open to remove this restriction. It also >>does not work under TSO. There is a separate APAR for that. > >IMO that restriction should not exist in the first place (so long a >the mask does not affect which catalog you are referencing). IOW: If >the unmasked part of the name leads to a catalog by following the >alias chain, that should be enough for it to work without needing to >alter IDCAMS's processing by supplying it with a CATALOG parm. > You would think. I think most if not all the room (who hadn't already worked with 1.11 via ESP or vendor programs) was surprised at the session I was in at SHARE when this (illogical?) behavior was described. At least it is getting rectified a lot quicker than the shortcomings of the SMF logger dump program (IFASMFDL) did. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
