In a message dated 7/11/2007 11:25:41 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I didn't know that ABSTR could be used to allocate a PDS. Was I wrong?? The fact that the JCL Reference book has the following text means this combination is supported: "SPACE=(ABSTR,(primary=qty,address[,directory]}". The author of this text omitted a necessary right parenthesis. The presence of the third positional operand called "directory" tells allocation to format the number of directory blocks that you indicated in that operand. If you try to allocate a new PDS via ISPF 3.4 and you indicate that the "Data set name type" is "PDS" but do not code a number of directory blocks, you will get a new PS allocated instead of a PO. If you use JCL and code DSORG=PO but do not give a directory value you will get a DSORG of PO, Data set name type of PDS, but with 0 directory blocks, which renders it unusable as a PDS. After creating this PDS wannabe, I tried to copy a member from a real PDS into the mutant PDS and got an I/O error on BLDL message. All of these experiments were done using SMS-managed new data sets. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL
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