Subject: Re: VTOCs vs. catalogs > I'm curious whether any of you old-timers can explain why we have both VTOCs and catalogs.
Please note that you can have datasets with exactly the same name on different volumes, but only one can be cataloged. This was (and might still be) a common practice for sysprogs who try to maintain a system. (I still do it when it is convenient.) Also, it is easy to move a non-VSAM non-SMS volume to a completely different z/OS system and simply recatalog the datasets (or some of them) on that volume. Bill Ogden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
