Mark Your right, thanks for the correction, rack it up to a senior moment. =============================================== Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com ===============================================
From: Mark Zelden <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 07/02/2010 10:45 AM Subject: Re: Unix systems and Serialization mechanism Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> >I think you are comparing apples to oranges. DISP= can be specified in >JCL, the program isn't coded using DISP=OLD, it is inherited. In >addition, as DISP=OLD is the default, if the JCL coder omits the DISP >clause on the JCL, OLD is assumed. The default has always been (NEW,DELETE,DELETE). Thankfully if someone forgets to code disp on an important data set (or even a unimportant one) that is in use the job will wait until it is canceled or fail due to duplicate data set if it is not in use. Of course I've never done such a thing. <g,d & r> Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
