Chris - you got me there - "write to a concatenated PDS" I thought that concatenated PDS's were only supported when DCB opened for input - am I behind the times ? (again)
Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: 25 May 2005 10:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to save a ISPF table value > 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. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
