On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:00:16 -0500, Ray Overby <[email protected]> wrote:
>It also appears that the TSO ALLOCATE command cannot be used to allocate
>PDSE's. Is this true? I reviewed the ALLOC command help and could not
>find a "DSNTYPE" parameter. Perhaps I missed it.
You must have. :-) DSNTYPE(LIBRARY)
DSNTYPE('DSNTYPE-VALUE') - DATA SET NAME TYPE
LIBRARY--A PARTITIONED DATA SET IN PDSE
FORMAT
PDS--A PARTITIONED DATA SET IN RECORD
FORMAT
HFS--A PARTITIONED DATA SET IN PDSE
FORMAT
LARGE--A LARGE FORMAT SEQUENTIAL DATA SET
WITH THE ABILITY TO HAVE A SIZE GREATER
THAN 65535 TRACKS ON EACH VOLUME.
BASIC--A DATA SET THAT IS TO BE LIMITED TO NO
MORE THAN 65535 TRACKS PER VOLUME. IT
MIGHT BE VSAM OR SEQUENTIAL.
EXTREQ--A DATA SET MUST BE EXTENDED FORMAT
(REQUIRED). IT MIGHT BE VSAM OR
SEQUENTIAL.
EXTPREF--REQUESTS THAT THE DATA SET BE
EXTENDED FORMAT(PREFERRED). IF THE
SYSTEM CANNOT CREATE IT IN EXTENDED
FORMAT, IT WILL TRY BASIC FORMAT. IT
MIGHT BE VSAM OR SEQUENTIAL.
NULL--OVERRIDE THIS KEYWORD IF IT HAS BEEN
INCLUDED VIA DATA CLASS PARAMETERS
Mark
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