On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 09:22:19 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>... IIRC I had a bug in software I was
>developing and created a dataset with what I had intended would be a PDS
>member name, TEST or FOO or something like that, and it worked with no
>issues. In some cases there might be a catalog access violation enforced by
>RACF, but that would not mean the dataset name itself was invalid.
>
//X DD DSN=(,KEEP),DSN='&SYSUID.MyPDS(FooBar)',UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE...
... creates an uncatalogued PS data set (before SMS).
Really bugged storage admins.
What about "DISABLE(DSNCHECK)"
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.idac100/c1030.htm
Does anyone use this? Does anyone even care?
I suggested it long ago as a remedy for a DoS exposure in the OMVS
"mount" command. No one paid attention, and IBM chose instead to
restrict the syntax of "mount"
-- gil
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