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Specially Prefixed Data Sets

In previous releases, the IDS data set contains entries for both operating system data set names and specially prefixed CA 7 ‘data set’ names. The entries that are associated with specially prefixed CA 7 ‘data set’ names contain information about job and data set triggers, predecessor jobs, networks, and prose. The special CA 7 prefixes affected by Version 12.0 are:

• JDEP
• AUTO
• PRED
• TRGD
• PP

When a generic DSN that begins with a CA 7 special prefix is specified in Version 12.0, the LCTLG and LDSN commands function differently than in previous releases.

• LCTLG does not include results for operating system data sets.
• LDSN does not support generic specifications that match a special prefix.

You can display these data set names by using a batch job that uses SQL. Use a generic special prefix specification using the sample SQL distributed in library CAL2SQL member AL2SDSN.