> There are many ways to get around this. For example, you can 
> change the name 
> of the data set allocated to ISPTABL so it matches the name 
> of the data set 
> containing the table you're updating. Or, you can LIBDEF the 
> ISPTABL data 
> set. Or, you can use the LIBRARY parm on the TBCLOSE (to name a few).

Also bear in mind that when you write to a concatenated PDS,
the new member goes into the first dataset in the concatenation
regardless of whether it came from there in the first place or
not. That it should be this way is obvious if you think about it,
but I have seen people astonished by that behavior for <mumble>
years. 

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