The following changes are made to z/OS Version 2 Release
1 (V2R1) as updated March 2014..
New
- A new section has been added with information on how to suspend
a catalog. See Suspending a Catalog for more information.
- New information has been added to simplify recovery and improve
data availability for your installation. See Recovering a BCS for
more information.
- New parameters DELETE USERCATALOG NODISCONNECT and DEFINE USERCATALOG
RECONNECT have been added to DELETE and DEFINE to keep alias information.
See Retaining Alias Information Across Catalog Recovery for more information.
- Reporting Capabilities of MODIFY CATALOG have been updated with
operator commands MODIFY,CATALOG,REPORT,CATSTATS and MODIFY,CATALOG,REPORT,CATSTATX.
See Obtaining Information About Catalogs and CAS Activity and Evaluating Catalog I/O Activity and Settings for
more information.
- The MODIFY CATALOG Command has been updated with new parameters:
[RECOVER,{LOCK | UNLOCK | SUSPEND | RESUME}(ucat)],
[REPORT,CATSTATX({catname | catprefix*})],
[{RLSENABLE | RLSQUIESCE }{(ucat) | ,SYSTEM}] and
[TASKMAX(nnn)]. See MODIFY CATALOG Command Syntax for
more information.
- The field name directory has been updated with new fields. See Catalog Field Names for more information.
- A new chapter has been added for Record Level Sharing (RLS). See Accessing Catalogs for Record Level Sharing (RLS) for more information.