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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Ed Gould
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 4:04 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - EXPIRATION OF DSN
> 
> On Oct 29, 2014, at 4:39 PM, R.S. wrote:
> 
> > W dniu 2014-10-29 o 18:47, Gibney, Dave pisze:
> >> HSM will happily back-up empty datasets. INVALID datasets are another
> >> matter. But, it is an easy matter to define a DEFAULT DATACLAS with
> >> DSORG=PS and never have another invalid dataset.
> >>
> > True.
> > However I would prefer to have some feature to avoid creation of
> > invalid datasets.
> > I saw a lot of invalid datasets and none of them was really need by
> > the creator.
> >
> 
> R.S.
>   Define invalid datasets, please.

>From HSM's perspective, they lack a DSORG. Most frequently created by JCL 
>where the program doesn't actually OPEN the output file for some reason.
On non-SMS disk, they can also lack an EOF mark with older z/OS (or perhaps 
OS390)

> 
> Ed
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