On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:01:33PM -0500, Richard Sims wrote: > That obviously precludes Access=Offsite. And wouldn't it be nice if the > programmers put out some kind of message when the function ends up copying > none of the data that the customer requested? (Come on, IBM - that's not > "enterprise" level programming.)
You wouldn't believe how much effort it took to get APAR IC36499 opened (which addresses this issue). How it finally got opened: I nailed them with the fact that even a MOVE NODEDATA on a *non-existant* filespace reported success with 0 bytes moved. At first support even classified this as "works as designed": "Since there wasn't any data to be moved, moving 0 bytes is success". After I asked them to fix the DELETE FILESPACE command (which *does* give an error on a non-existant filespace), support instead finally opened the APAR for MOVE NODEDATA. Once the APAR was opened, a programmer apparently took advantage of it to also include the reporting of off-site volumes. -- Jurjen Oskam PGP Key available at http://www.stupendous.org/
