DISP=REUSE or DISP=(REUSE,CATLG) in case of additional volumes.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, McKown, John
<[email protected]> wrote:
> We all know that you can specify DISP=OLD|SHR|NEW|MOD for a dataset. I just 
> had another wacky thought of a new one that I would like. I can't really 
> think of a good, three character, value for it. But what it would do is what 
> UNIX does with a PATHOPTS=(OTRUNC,OCREAT). It would, like MOD, either reuse 
> an existing allocation, or create a new one. But, unlike MOD, it would not 
> add to the end, but put an EOF at the beginning of the dataset and start 
> writing over the old data. What do others think?
>
> John McKown

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