Tom Russell wrote on 01/17/2008 02:42:06 PM: > A DD DUMMY, or DSN=NULLFILE, or no //SYSIN allows DFSORT to know that > ICEGENER is OK to go. Anything else requires them to OPEN and READ the > file. Much easier just to XCTL to IEBGENER and let it work it out. Why > would they OPEN the file?
Yes, that's correct. "ICEGENER" is just a front-end for calling DFSORT copy or IEBGENER so we don't do any I/O processing in ICEGENER itself. I was trying to avoid discussing how ICEGENER works "internally", but since you figured it out ... Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
