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Status Future consideration
Categories Wazi Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 3, 2025

Need support for migrated dataset during DEPLOY_MODULES/UPDATE/MEMBER_COPY phase

When Wazi Deploy tries to copy to a dataset that has been migrated, it fails with an error in ZOAU dtouch which doesn't support migrated datasets:

stderr_response: IKJ56893I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOAD NOT ALLOCATED+ IGD17101I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOAD NOT DEFINED BECAUSE DUPLICATE NAME EXISTS IN CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 REASON CODE IS 38 IGG0CLEH BGYSC1409E Dataset BUILD.PDSE.LOAD already exists. New dataset not allocated. 

command: dtouch -j -tLIBRARY -s2CYL -e2CYL -rU -l0 -j -- "BUILD.PDSE.LOAD" 

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Oct 8, 2025

    Why is an idea needed for this?
    Isn't this a bugg!?