That was my point; if you need it at IPL time and it's cataloged in a user catalog, you need an explicit volume serial.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Tom Marchant <0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IEFA107I when pointing to dataset alias On Wed, 2 May 2018 16:14:28 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >>True, but the APF list entries include the volume serial on which the data >> set resides, or they specify "SMS". In either case, the catalog entries are >> not needed at IPL time, so APF listed data sets can be cataloged in a >> user catalog. > >How do you build the DEB for the link list when LNKAUTH=APFTAB is specified if >the volume serial is not specified and the data set is cataloged in a user >catalog? If you have a link list containing data sets cataloged in a user catalog, and the volume serial is not specified in the link list specification, that link list must have been created after IPL when user catalogs are available. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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