In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/21/2005
at 09:54 AM, Barry Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Please educate me further: The allocation of an existing dataset has
>to verify the dataset exists, by reading the VTOC to verify its
>existence,
No. In fact, there is IBM-supplied JCL that refers to data sets that
do not exist.
>and since DATASET NOT FOUND errors occur prior to LOADTIME
DATASET NOT FOUND means that no catalog entry was found; it has
nothing to do with whether a DSCB exists.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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