On Thu, 11 May 2017 08:40:47 -0500, Scott Barry wrote:
>
>Any datasets on tape or all DASD (any with more than 17 character tape dataset 
>name?)  TMC consideration possibly depending on the tape management subsystem 
>(i.e., CA-1 has a utility but last 17 characters are recorded in the TMC)?  
>Otherwise depending on security/authority, IDCAMS ALTER should likely satisfy.
> 
So renaming a tape data set might involve updating the HDR1 label?

Let's not go there.  Or not attempt a rename to alter those last 17 characters.

I'd expect TMC to record the entire 44 characters so it could deal with
DSNs identical in the last 17 but with different prefixes.

-- gil

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