Just wanted to add my 2cents that in the pre-SMS days one could leave a dataset uncatalogued and just address it by dsname, unit and volser. I even remember primitive version management practices based on that possibility.
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On 30 Jan 2024, at 11:27, Alejandro olivan Alvarez <alejandro.olivan.alvarez@...> wrote:
A quick search on 'mvs ci split reorg' threw yet more light on the matter.
At the end, I think that I can conclude that reorg, in the MVS/Tk5 context (not in more modern z/OS), means backing up the catalog contents, re-create the catalog back from scratch, and then dump the backup contents back in.
So I do end at the same place, although for another reason (not for lack of actual space due to excess of contents, but for lack of useable space due to degradation of data structure by sheer usage).
OK... So I have to work on some JCL that achieve that, since my User Catalogs days are, and will always be, numbered without periodic 'reorg'.
Cheers.
