It remains cataloged. It is just no longer part of the gdg. Good thing those thousand or two files were just a few tracks.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, J O Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> wrote: > I haven't experimented with this, but going with NOSCRATCH is likely to cause > big problems with DASD GDGs. A data set residing on an SMS-managed volume > must be cataloged. It cannot just sit there uncataloged. Irresistible force > meets unmovable object. > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > jo.skip.robin...@sce.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:54 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 23:09:44 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >>At 08:32 -0600 on 11/18/2015, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Fastest way >>to read OLDEST GDG entry: >> >>>you might want to make sure the GDG is defined with NOSCRATCH before >>>doing this. >> >>Note that NOSCRATCH will (I think) not only leave the V00 of a >>V01->V00 replacement cataloged (as a normally named file with the V01 >>being in the GDG base) but also do the same as GDG generations roll off >>due to the limit. Normally once it rolls you would want it deleted. > > Correct. And if you set the GDG to NOSRCATCH before replacing a data set, > then change the GDG back to SCRATCH, and if a new generation that would have > caused an old one to roll off is created during the interval, I suspect that > old generation would have to be scratched manually. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
