Isn't that what I said? Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: QSAM DCB not restored by CLOSE following S013-18 on OPEN In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/21/2006 at 09:00 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I suspect this is one of those classic MVS stories. When the gurus of >the sixties designed QSAM, the theory was that after a DCB ABEND the >program went away, so it didn't matter what state anything was left >in. Then, some other guru thought up ABEND recovery ... No. The DCB ABEND exit was an afterthought. I believe that it was somewhere between R17 and R20. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
