Hi Lizette, In respect of your questions:
"Is it possible to use DEF GDG (name(xyaz) NOSCRATCH NOPURGE) in an SMS pool. Is it possible that SMS will honor the NOSCRACH and allow uncataloged GDG datasets in the POOL?" In the JCL course I deliver I specifically get the students to create a GDG Base with a LIMIT of together with the SCRATCH option, and then generate 4 entries. I then get them to amend the base to NOSCRATCH, and then separately get the to change the LIMIT from 4 to 2. If they list the GDG using LISTC ENT for the base they will only see 2 associations under the base, however if the use LISTC LVL against the base they see both the associated entries and two data sets with GDG like names but which are marked ROLLED-OFF rather than ACTIVE in the STATUS field. I do mot believe the above would be evident from an ISPF 3.4 display as it would logically show all catalogued entries. If ISPF 3.4 is showing a base entry with a volume of all ?????? and no similarly named entries then I would conclude that the base was empty, but the ROLL-OFF status would not show. Kind Regards - Terry Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Reg : 3767263 Outgoing e-mails have been scanned, but it is the recipients responsibility to ensure their anti-virus software is up to date. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
