QUERY - It is my impression that if I try to allocate a dataset with
any of these options, the resulting dataset will get allocated as if
they had not been requested (and the Catalog Record will no longer
show these options for that dataset [ie: It will reflect the actual
allocation status not the requested, but ignored, options]). Thus you
can no longer define (the options are just ignored) nor allocate
datasets with these options. Does the "the zOS release that removes
support" refer to a situation where legacy datasets that were
allocated with these options will no longer be usable?
Yes, it refers to a future z/OS release where the options will no longer
work, any unconverted datasets will be unusable.
Note that, in current z/OS releases, even though IDCAMS DEFINE ignores
IMBED, REPLICATE and KEYRANGE, FDR and DFSMShsm/dss can still internally
allocate datasets with those attributes. Essentially, the catalog call
to DEFINE the cluster still accepts the options, but IDCAMS DEFINE
ignores them.
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Bruce A. Black
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