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Scratch Pools on OS Minidisks

To allow CA VM:Tape access to scratch pool definition data sets on OS minidisks, use FILEDEF commands instead of the POOLNAME and POOLASGN configuration file records. Without this access, CA VM:Tape needs to maintain two separate scratch pool definitions.

• Instead of using the POOLNAME configuration file record, you can issue a CMS FILEDEF command for ddname POOLNAME (before initialization) for the file containing the scratch pool definitions.

  For example, this FILEDEF command accesses scratch pool definition file POOL NAME G:

  filedef poolname disk pool name g (lrecl 80 block 3120 recfm fb
  

• Instead of using the POOLASGN configuration file record, you can issue a CMS FILEDEF with ddname POOLASGN for the file containing the scratch pool assignment rules. For example:

  filedef poolasgn disk pool rule g dsn abc parmlib (member u01nsm00 
     lrecl 80 block 3120 recfm fb