If you enter "TSO HELP DEFNVSAM" on your command line, you might see:
FUNCTION - THE DEFINE COMMAND CAN BE USED TO CATALOG A NONVSAM DATA SET IN A VSAM CATALOG. SYNTAX - DEFINE NONVSAM ( NAME('ENTRYNAME') VOLUMES('VOLSER' ...) DEVICETYPES('DEVTYPE' ...) COLLECTION FILESEQUENCENUMBERS('NUMBER' ...) OWNER('OWNERID') TO('DATE') | FOR('DAYS') RECATALOG | NORECATALOG ) CATALOG('CATNAME/PASSWORD') REQUIRED - NONVSAM, NAME, DEVICETYPES, VOLUMES DEFAULTS - NONE HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 8:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IDCAMS QUESTION - RECATALOG Good Day, Can you spot my error. I am trying to define the VVDS to a specif USERCAT. Is the RECATALOG option allowed? DEF NVSAM - (NAME(SYS1.VVDS.VPROM56) - DEVT(3390) - VOL(PROM56)) - CATALOG(SYS1.ICFCAT.SYSPRM) - RECATALOG IDC3211I KEYWORD 'RECATALOG' IS IMPROPER IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS 12 IDC0002I IDCAMS PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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