HCD unattended Export to allow replace an old IODF in different disk.

HCD unattended export with replace leaves IODF in old disk, not the one specified in the panel.

Wait state obtained in IPL because IODF file was not in the intended
disk, the one in the LOADPARM.

IODF file was created by HCD export from other sysplex, with replace
option. So the current IODF was exported to the original disk
(pertaining to an old z/OS 1.11 set) where an old IODF with the very
same name existed, instead creating the new in the disk that was
specified in the export panel.

From our point of view, this does not make sense: the export process
should delete de old IODF from the old disk and create the new one in
the intended disk.

I attach export JCL output, where it can be seen that I specified
S12CD1 as the export target disk, and the new IODF file was created in
S12CB1, where the old IODF was residing.

I know that in the unattended export panel you can choose between two
options: specify the volser when "(If IODF does not exist at the target
node)" or "Replace target IODF" when the condition "(If IODF already
exists) " is met.

But I think that this is an opportunity to improve the process, and
make available a mixed third option: to send the file to an specific
disk, at the very same time the old IODF is deleted from the old disk.


Thanks a lot for your time to read this.

Best regards.

Julio Montalvo Moreno