The message has been there since MVS days - I remember it in ESA, and it even might have been in there in XA (the cobwebs are getting denser in that back corner of my mind).
And it's really not an error - it's a warning. A job should not JCL out because of it. It's just warning you of a possible oversight. In fact, the old IBM distributed procs such as COB2CLG used this construct frequently to allow user-provided linkage editor input. However, depending on z/OS level, I remember some APARs relating to proc overrides and DD orders and in-stream data sets. Is this flushing your job? Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi French is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling. --Robert B Wilson English is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII. ---Christophe Pierret [for Alain LaBonté] > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Monday 05 March 2007 15:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Is IEF686I DDNAME REFERRED TO ON DDNAME KEYWORD ... new? > > Is IEF686I DDNAME REFERRED TO ON DDNAME KEYWORD IN PRIOR STEP WAS NOT > RESOLVED new in z/OS (new relative to OS/390)? I have JCL > that was working > in OS/390 V2R10 but is getting this error in z/OS. > > It's a concatenated DD: > > //MYDD DD DSN=SOME.DATASET.NAME(MEMBER),DISP=SHR > // DD DDNAME=MOREDD > > Where MOREDD does not exist (in some cases -- it's a JCL > INCLUDE file and > sometimes I want to concatenate onto MYDD and sometimes I do > not). In V2R10 > I was just omitting MOREDD and OS/390 was happy. z/OS is > giving me the error > above. (FWIW, the JCL is actually a little more complicated > with several > concatenated PDS members and many intervening //* comments.) > > Yes, I know how to fix it (//MOREDD DD DUMMY) but I was just > surprised that > something that used to work had stopped working. I would be > interested in a > confirmation that I am not missing or imagining something. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
