On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:02:28 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >On 3/18/2012 9:03 AM, Ron Hawkins wrote: >> And finally, my memory may be a bit dodgy nowadays, but it's my recollection >> that the EOF for empty datasets was introduced so that DFSMShsm and DFSMSdss >> could migrate, move and copy empty datasets. When there is no EOF for a zero >> empty dataset these utilities choke and spit it back. I don't think security >> was an objective. > IIRC, there was a time in prehistory or thereabouts when HSM choked attempting to migrate a properly formatted PDS with no members. There might have been a mismotivated performance concern here: If it's empty, it's more efficient to delete and later reallocate than to migrate and recall.
>When you use the ALLDATA option, DSS copies whatever exists past >the last valid EOF. ... > Presumably also past DS1LSTAR? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
