I agree with this post. Why read the same file twice other than to make a copy of it, especially when it's something as easily corruptible as raw, instream data coded within JCL.
hernandez --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: passing instream sysin to next step > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:19 PM > So is there any reason you cannot have an IEBGener step at > the very > beginning of this job stream that would pass a temp DSN > through the rest of > the JCL. Then if your users want to override SYSUT1 > with instream it is > still a temp dsn for the remainder of the job? > > Lizette > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

