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Renaming Data Sets

Before you move a data set, CA Disk dynamically links to IDCAMS and issues an ALTER NEWNAME against the original data set name or VSAM cluster. As a result, the last character in the data set name or VSAM cluster name increases by two alphabetic characters each time. This increment allows CA Disk to define the data set or cluster on the target volume with the original name or cluster name.

For example, while moving cluster userid.APPLE.CLUSTER, CA Disk issues an ALTER NEWNAME, resulting in the following name change:

userid.APPLE.CLUSTET