In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/23/2007
at 01:33 PM, Dave Kopischke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>I believe Gil's example will also fail if the file does not exist and
>he actually tries to write to it without a SPACE parameter. If the
>file does not exist and you don't at least open and close the file,
>no VTOC record will be written to the disk.
It doesn't matter whether there is an OPEN; the ALLOC request to
create the DSCB1 is done by Allocation. If his DD statement doesn't
request an ALLOC then the OPEN will fail on an ABEND S213.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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