On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:54:21 -0600, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I remember this too. I just tried a VARY dasdunit,OFFLINE on z/OS 1.12 >and it immediately went off line, with the message being issued. > >We had a started task called DEALLOC > >S DEALLOC > >it looked like: > >//DEALLOC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 > >All it did was cause a step start, which went through ALLOCATION, >which is what seemed to drive the message. > Right, you no longer need to do this. I should know when this change happened, but a lot of allocation changes were made in phases over at least a couple of OS releases. That being said, I'm pretty sure this change happened at z/OS 1.7 (which is perhaps why I am fuzzy since the shop I was at skipped from 1.6 to 1.8). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
