<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > In a recent note, Mark Thomen said: > > > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:27:01 -0800 > > > > Oh - and I forgot to mention: syntax checking is automatically enabled > > beginning in HDZ11G0 (z/os 1.3), unless the installation disables it. So > > no invalid data set names should get cataloged. > > > Will it continue to allow invalid data set names to be > deleted/uncatalogued even when syntax checking is enabled?
No - if an invalid data set name is in a catalog, you'll have to use other methods to remove it, such as VVDSFIX. > > The semantics confuses me. Why was anything ever permitted > but deemed "invalid"? Can't answer that - a decision was made before my time started in Catalog. Thanks, Mark Thomen Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
