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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS SMS
Created by Guest
Created on May 12, 2021

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DFSMSsms ACS provide &OLDNAME variable during ACSENVIR=RENAME in MGMTCLAS

During SMS &ACSENVIR='RENAME' processing there is currently no ability in the MGMTCLAS routine to check what the original dataset name is, you only have the newname in the &DSN variable. This means that inappropriate renames cannot be prevented with an EXIT statement, for example where a test dataset is renamed to a production dataset name. This can result in a production dataset being in the incorrect STORGRP where it may not have the correct service in terms of performance, backup and migration.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     May 26, 2021

    Ron - fair point that &DSN or &OLDDSN may not be the only determining factors to distinguish Prod & Test data. I'm not quite sure what the 'DFP segment' means, is that the &DEF_MGMTCLAS type value from RACF for example? If that would be different to &MGMTCLAS that may be another means to compare if &MGMTCLAS was the 'old' original value and &DEF_MGMTCLAS was the 'new'.

  • Guest
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    |     May 14, 2021

    Difficult thing as in the use case could be that different sites have different way of determine prod/test datasets. for instance, we use DFP segment for that. Than you would also need to no this (and other?) old values..

  • Guest
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    |     May 13, 2021

    Although we have no need for this function at this time, the request does seem reasonable.

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