On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:01:23 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
>SMPWRKx statement are defined as DDDEFs, but also can be explicitly >coded in job as /SMPWRKx DD statements. > >Q1: JCL DD overwrites DDDEF - True/False? > Overrides (sorry to correct your English) - True >Q2: Actually there are separate DDDEF definitions for each zone and >SMPWRKx are defined in GLOBAL zone as well as in TARGET zone. >What definition is used durin APPLY processing? >I bet that those from TARGET zone, because of SET BDY(TARGET). Is it true? > Yes, TARGET. Only the DDDEFs in whatever zone you SET BOUNDARY to are dynamically allocated when referenced by the SMP/E function you are trying to execute. >Q3: What in case where there are multiple SET BDY() statements in single >JCL step and SMPWRKx DD's are present ? Do they rule for every zone used >in the step? > Same answer as above. Each time there is a SET BOUNDARY, those are the DDDEFs used for the functions / statements after the SET BOUNDARY. Regards, 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
