At 17:16 -0600 on 11/16/2005, Big Iron wrote about ESOTERIC decomissioning:
The problem with esoterics in the catalog is that there is a sequence number included in the device type entry, so if you remove one, all the other ones with larger sequence numbers will change; so if there are esoterics in catalog entries, they may point to a different esoteric. IIRC z/OS uses the real device type, so someone would have had to use IDCAMS DEFINE (or equivalent) to create a catalog entry that specifies an esoteric.
I may be wrong but I have the impression that if you open a cataloged dataset that has an esoteric device type, the catalog is automatically updated (I think at close time) to have the correct device type (IOW: As you access datasets, any esoterics are replaced with the correct device type value for that volume).
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