retired mainframer wrote:
Run some test cases, at least one for an SMS volume, at least one for a
non-SMS volume:
List the catalog entry for the old DSN
List the catalog entry for the new DSN (expect failure)
List the VTOC for the old DSN
List the VTOC for the new DSN (expect failure)
Rename the dataset
List the catalog entry for the old DSN (expect failure for an SMS
dataset)
List the catalog entry for the new DSN (expect failure for a non-SMS
dataset)
List the VTOC for the old DSN (expect failure)
List the VTOC for the new DSN
Uncatalog the old DSN (expect failure for SMS dataset)
List the catalog entries for both old and new DSNs
Catalog the new DSN (expect failure for SMS dataset)
List the catalog entries for both old and new DSNs
Draw conclusions about who does what to whom.
Are any of the datasets VSAM in disguise, such as PDSE or ZFS?
Hi!
That's not a bad idea - except that in-house, I get no errors; this is at
a customer site (and the errors are strange - return-code=8 and
reason-code=8
from the unCATALOG; that reason-code is undocumented for that return-code.)
The data sets are not VSAM - just a "flat" sequential file.
It's interesting that I can't seem to arrive at a _definitive_ "This is
the proper
way to rename a non-VSAM file" statement. I can't find anything in the
doc, etc...
and while an act-of-discovery will probably get me something that
"mostly works",
one is not assured it would be guaranteed to work into the future, etc...
I find this situation strange of such a venerable operating system, and
it makes me
think that I must not be understanding something fundamental... because
surely such an operation as renaming a file must be well defined and
well understood
and easy to communicate.
But - no answer has been forthcoming here, and my scouring of DFSMS
documentation hasn't yielded anything fruitful; so... looks like
experimentation
is what is left...
Unless, another pair of eyes has seen some kind of documentation or example
of "this is the proper way to rename a non-VSAM file."
- Dave R. -
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