No. It means that the default behavior of MOD is changed. It means the PDS pointed to by SYSUT2 will contain only members added via the sequential input stream. If the input stream is empty, then the PDS will be empty.
And it works as advertised in the FM, now located on the DFSMS bookshelf. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM Supported method to empty PDS in Batch In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/22/2006 at 12:19 PM, Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >IEBUPDTE PARM=NEW has worked for me. Huh! Doesn't that simply mean that the member is new? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

