On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:08:42 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: >I don't check "Using Data Sets";
Perhaps you should. >but that is how things were in the days of MVS OS/VS SP1 (1985): It was not how it worked in OS/360. I just looked it up in the JCL manual on bitsavers. The sequence of completing a DCB is the same regardless of whether the data set is opened for input, output or I/O. >if things >have 'changed' since then, so be it. > >Tom Marchant wrote: > >>On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:47:16 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: >> >>>When opening for input, the priority order is >>>reversed (DASD, JCL, program). >> >>I don't think so, and Using Data Sets seems to say otherwise. >>Can you cite a reference? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
