Nice. It's been (I would guess) several releases since I worked with CA 1.
Maybe 5.2 era? Either I was unaware of the UNCATA option, or it wasn't
available at the time. Having two-way communication between TMC and OS-CAT
makes sense, and cuts the work in half.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Russell Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Based on the UNCATA option setting, chances are that CA 1 will do the
> un-catalog from the MVS/Catalog once the volume is scratched. For CA 1,
> there is also a batch job (TMSUNCAT) that takes the output from TMSCLEAN
> (the scratch list) and will un-catalog all entries. This is useful for
> sites with unique un-shared MVS/Catalogs but use a single shared TMC. Or
> for clients that want to improve the performance of TMSCLEAN (doing
> thousands of un-catalog's takes a lot of time, so this off-loads that
> process).
>
> Russell Witt
> CA 1
>
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>
> Isn't the job only half done if the now obsolete entries are still in the
> system user catalogs?
> Wouldn't removing the obsolete GDGs from the user catalogs also clean up
> TMC "catalog controlled" entries during the next scratch run?
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