How so? The JCL Reference says "NULLFILE has the same effect as coding
the DD DUMMY parameter" and does not say that DUMMY precludes DCB=.

Charles

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The construction

//<ddname>  DD DUMMY

is being misused here for a purpose for which it was never intended.
Use 
instead

//<ddname> DD DSN=NULLFILE,DCB= . . .

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