I remember using "S X" a long time ago myself. There was no proclib member named X, the member would not be found, but allocation was driven away so the device went offline. This all worked fine until someone put a real member into SYS1.PROCLIB named "X" to do something special, not knowing what the operators were doing. Then surprising results happened. It's better to used the official method, namely "S DEALLOC".
Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane • Franklin, TN 37069-2526 • USA t: +1.617.614.4503 • e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com • w: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Varying off path while it is in use The behavior has changed. Used to be in MVT and early MVS that something needed to drive allocation to take a device offline. I personally have *never* used DEALLOC. Just a simple 'S X' (with no proc behind it) from the console was sufficient. <snip> >It is still shipped in SYS1.PROCLIB(DEALLOC). > Of course. Someone's JCL proc or MGCR might depend on it. And no DD statement. I remembered wrong. And no IBM copyright notice. Does that mean you could post it here, or is it copyright regardless of notice? But the one I see has been customized locally to add accounting information to the JOB statement. (The account number is obsolete by two corporate acquisitions and more.) Did the behavior of VARY really change, or is it just that on a contemporary z/OS system the mean time between allocations is imperceptibly short? </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
