On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:11:22 -0500, Imbriale, Donald wrote: >Check the volume on which the catalog which contains the DSN resides.
Not in an SMS environment. > >Don Imbriale > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of willie bunter >Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:56 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: PATTERN DSCB RECORD > >Hallo To All, > > A batch job was executed successfully. The job was creating a gdg >dsn. I noticed that the jcl did not contain the PATTERN DSCB RECORD. I >checked the SMS rules but found nothing (SC, MC & DC). Can anybody tell >me where else I should look? > > Below is a snippet of the jcl: > > //IDMSJNLA DD DSN=IFDB31.VARY.JOURNAL(+1), >// DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=19068,BLKSIZE=19068), > // UNIT=3480,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE) > The JCL provided the RECFM, LRECL and BLKSIZE. The purpose of the pattern (or model) DSCB is to fill in DCB information. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

