"Charles Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I open a QSAM input DCB with zero RECFM, LRECL, and BLKSIZE whose DD is a > JCL-allocated dataset. The dataset is a PDS which exists, but the member > specified in the JCL does not exist. I get an S013-18 on the OPEN as I would > expect. I recover from the S013-18 with a DCB abend exit. I subsequently > close the DCB. The evidence I am seeing indicates that the DCB is not > restored by CLOSE to its pre-OPEN state; that is, the PDS's RECFM, LRECL, > and BLKSIZE are those of the PDS, and no longer zero. > > This behavior contradicts my expectations and my impression of normal QSAM > behavior, that CLOSE returns a DCB to its pre-OPEN state. FWIW, I get > exactly the same behavior if I do not close the DCB. > > Is this a known behavior of QSAM? Is there a way to avoid it, other than the > brute-force method of re-initializing the DCB in my own code?
You might want to check section 3.12.6 DCB ABEND EXIT in DFSMS Using Data Sets. There are a lot of options and you haven't described exactly how you process the ABEND. Thanks, Mark Thomen Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
