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Status Planned for future release
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 25, 2022
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit ACMZ-I-9 IDCAMS: DEFINE RECATALOG for multivolume dataset with volcount > 2 in order to the filesequence and all volumes .

DEFINE RECATALOG: Check for dataset with volcount > 2 :correct filesequence and all volumes Merged

Recatalog the multivolume dataset in wrong order and or less volumes the dataset is corrupted but the IDCAMS has returncode=0.

i have following scenario.



1) I create a multivolume dataset.



LISTC ENT(J139730.TEST2.MULT.PSA) ALL

NONVSAM ------- J139730.TEST2.MULT.PSA

IN-CAT --- CATALOG.TEST.TESTCAT3

HISTORY

DATASET-OWNER-----(NULL) CREATION--------2022.068

RELEASE----------------2 EXPIRATION------0000.000

ACCOUNT-INFO-----------------------------------(NULL)

SMSDATA

STORAGECLASS ----SCMAYCA MANAGEMENTCLASS---(NULL)

DATACLASS ------DCDEFBAS LBACKUP ---0000.000.0000

ENCRYPTIONDATA

DATA SET ENCRYPTION-----(NO)

VOLUMES

VOLSER------------TEST02 DEVTYPE------X'3010200F'

VOLSER------------TESTMZ DEVTYPE------X'3010200F'

VOLSER------------TEST30 DEVTYPE------X'3010200F'

VOLSER------------TEST09 DEVTYPE------X'3010200F'

VOLSER------------TEST00 DEVTYPE------X'3010200F'


2) DELETE J139730.TEST2.MULT.PSA NOSCRATCH



3) Define nonvsam recatalog with the wrong sequence and less off the volumes.


DEFINE -

NONVSAM( -

NAME(J139730.TEST2.MULT.PSA) -

RECATALOG -

VOLUMES(TEST00,TEST09,TEST02) -

DEVICETYPES(3390,3390) -

) -

CATALOG(CATALOG.TEST.TESTCAT3);


IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0



Why does DEFINE NONVSAM RECATALOG not check the sequence and the volumecount for the dataset?


Idea priority Medium