You use this dialog box to define a catalog entry for a single non-VSAM data set you have selected in the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal.
To learn about the standard capabilities of a dialog box, see Standard tabs in the dialog boxes of the Storage Toolkit. The topic includes a link to the Reference guides for commands that are used in the Storage Toolkit.
You can specify a generic device name that is supported by your system, using up to six characters. For example, 3380, 3390, 3400-2, and 3400-5 are valid device types.
If you expect to change the device type of the system residence volume, you can enter four zeroes (0000) in one of the rows of the Device Types table. At LOCATE and DELETE time, this field is resolved to the device type. This method allows you to use the non-VSAM data sets without having to recatalog them to point to the new volume. A Device Type value of 0000 causes the actual device type to be determined from the current system residence volume (or its logical extension) at the time the catalog entry is retrieved.
When you use the wildcard specification of six asterisks (******), the system dynamically resolves this specification to the system residence volume serial number, whenever the catalog entry is used. This value is not resolved when the DEFINE NONVSAM command is processed. This behavior allows you to later change the volume serial number of system residence volume without also having to recatalog the non-VSAM data sets on that volume.