And I guess the bottom line on the original technical question is: - DISP=NEW fails if the PDS already exists (or, if you will, "may be used to make certain that the PDS does not already exist"); DISP=MOD is good either way. - DISP=NEW and MOD both fail if the member already exists but fail differently: NEW fails on the CLOSE with SB14-04 -- this can only happen if the program creates the member during execution (OPEN, PUT, CLOSE, OPEN, PUT, CLOSE) because after all the PDS must be brand new; MOD fails on the OPEN but I am not sure of the exact error.
Comments? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 7:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Difference between DISP=NEW and MOD for a PDS member? A lot of replies. Thanks all. Let me try to address various comments in a single response. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
