In
<77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca3430882f...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com>,
on 04/08/2011
at 07:57 PM, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> said:
>In my opinion, the data set is not fully created until some program
>begins writing new data onto the tracks which have been previously
>reserved to hold that new data through the process known as
>allocation of a new data set.
There are several cases where only the DSCB matters, e.g., models.
There are also cases where only the catalog entry and the DSCB matter,
e.g., in a common trick for keeping a job from running twice.
--
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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