> On Apr 11, 2017, at 3:24 PM, Thomas David Rivers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've got some old code here that is doing a strange
> thing trying to rename a non-VSAM file.
> 
> After invoking the DFSMS RENAME service; which
> has met with success (return-code is 0) to rename
> a file in the VTOC from the "old" name to the "new"name;
> it then goes on to un-CATALOG the "old" name.
> 
> What is surprising is that the un-CATALOG mysteriously
> succeeds... but only sometimes.
> 
> Trying to track down two questions with this:
> 
>  1) Is the un-CATALOG of the "old" name (which presumbly
>       is no longer there since RENAME has succeeded) necessary?
> 
>  2) Why would this un-CATALOG succeed if the RENAME
>       has worked?  Shouldn't it always fail??? (Presumably
>       with a return-code of 8?)
> 

Is it SMS managed?

Ed

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