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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 17, 2025

Support for PDSE datasets on EAV volumes

We have PDSE ds allocated in EAV volumes, so when we use member_archive in Wazi Deploy we get the following error in the copy step using ZOAU copy command dcp.

ZOAU does not support PDSE datasets on EAV volumes (because they are a format 8/9/3 pair in the VTOC and ZOAU only supports 1 and 8). It would be important to format support for the 8/9/3 VTOC pair. So, request to add this new format support in ZOAU. Thanks

Unexpected dscb3 format encountered with ds3keyid of 0x9010180" error" can happen for datasets allocated on EAV volumes.

Idea priority Medium