EXCEPT statement not honored running a Faver2 load of a large VSAM catalog

Products

• FAVER VSAM Data Protection

Issue/Introduction

The following JCL is not honoring the EXCEPT.

LOAD  DSN(*                         - 
       EXCEPT DEFAULT.MODEL.*       -      
              VSAM.COMPRESS.CONTROL -      
        OBJECTS(VOL(AAAAA1          -      
                 AAAAA2             -      
                 AAAAA3             -      
                 AAAAA4             -      
                 AAAAA5

 

Environment

Component: FAVER2

Cause

In order for the VOLUMES list to be recognized, the EXCEPT should be later in the statement.

Resolution

The EXCEPT statement now follows the overrides.

Example

LOAD DSN(PUBLIC.CISZ.KSDS  -                
           CLUSTER(VOL(LV4201 -              
            LV4202  -                        
            LV4300  -                        
ETC )) -                                     
EXCEPT DEFAULT.MODEL.*       -               
      VSAM.COMPRESS.CONTROL )