CA Dynam for VSE User Guide

DYNCAT Commands
4. This appends volume 4668 to version 1 of SALES INPUT.
5. This defines tape volume 7218 as externally owned by B.
ALTER Command
Use the ALTER command to modify the characteristics of entities defined in the
Catalog. There are three different types of information you can change,
depending on the positional operand you supply.
To Modify Command Required Operand
characteristics of tape and disk files ALTER 'data set name'
characteristics of sort key entries ALTER SKNAME='skname'
the status of tape volumes ALTER volser
file sequence in a multifile dataset ALTER ‘data set name’ UNCHAIN
Modifying Tape and Disk Characteristics
To modify the characteristics of tape and disk files, use the following
information. If you include a parameter (VERSION, VOLSER, or GDSID) that
uniquely identifies an existing version, only that version of the specified
dataset will be altered. Otherwise, the default characteristics of the dataset
will be altered. (With VERSION, VOLSER, and GDSID, only the following
operands may be included: BLKSZ, CREATE, EXPDATE, JOBNAME,
LOCK/UNLOCK, LRECL, OWNER, PED, PERM, RECFM, SYSID, USERID,
VLTLOC.)
The format of the command is shown below.
ALTER
'data set name'
[ ALLoc=(volser,unit,q1,q2,q3,SYSnnn) ]
[ BLKSZ= {nnnnn|OPTimize|'OPT,nnnnn' } ]
[ CATOPEN= {YES|NO } ]
[ CIMSG= {'text,r'|NO } ]
[ CLOSE= {NORWD|RWD|UNL|NO } ]
[ COMment= {'text'|NO } ]
[ COMSG= {'text,r'|NO } ]
[ CREate=date ]
[ DEFvlt=c ]
[ DENsity= {cccc|NO } ]
[ {[A] [,B] [,D] [,E] [,F] [,I] } ]
[ DISKOPT=( {[,K] [,L] [,M] [,N] [,O] [,P] } ) ]
[ {[,S] [,T] [,W] [,X] [,NA] } ]
Chapter 8: Maintaining the Catalog−DYNCAT Program 8–17