-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard Woren Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DUMMY and BLKSIZE=0
[snip] > I seem to recall that ASMF's macro language *required* all > positional parameters to be specified prior to any keyword parameters. I too believe that is correct. [snip] > I'm fairly certain that a program cannot even determine whether > the JCL specified DSN=NULLFILE vs DUMMY, because DUMMY is > represented in the JFCB via the DSN being NULLFILE. SVC 99 dynamic info retrieval also appears to treat DUMMY and NULLFILE the same: both return a "type" of DUMMY and a DSN of NULLFILE. [snip] So I'll go farther than I did in my uninteresting post: I will say "there is no discernible difference between DUMMY and NULLFILE." Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
