On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:04:00 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >I double checked and SVC 99 has two keys, DALEXPDT & DALEXPDL, to assign >expiration dates. It would be very helpful to me if BPXWDYN could use these as >well because I want the equivalent of EXPDT=99000 for CA-1 to do "catalog >control" on tapes which I create using BPXWDYN. Well, I'm actually using >Dovetailed Technologies' Co:Z Data Set Pipes' "todsn" command to create tapes >from UNIX files in interactive shell scripts (not JCL). "fromdsn" must use >BPXWDYN because it accepts its parameters via a "-x" switch. > >Have I missed something in the documentation? > Nope. Some years ago, I whined in MVS-OE about lack of RETPD, and it was generously provided. But in those days of yore, BPXWDYN support was more casual. Nowadays, EXPDT would probably need a forman Requirement.
But DYNALLOC support of tapes is so miserable (no RETAIN, VOL=REF, ...) that I'm largely compelled to use JCL DD allocation regardless. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
