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The problem is you are giving it a space param with directory block
counts on the output file (the third number in space card), SMS picks
that up and allocates a PDS instead of a Sequential file.
Change SPACE=(CYL,(7,1,43),RLSE) to SPACE=(CYL,(7,1),RLSE)
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The original poster admitted all that.
The question is whether or not IDCAMS should complain about being
asked to write to a PDS (not a member of a PDS) as a PS dataset.
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It's not a IDCAMS issue
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I don't think that's a given. It's easy to see why this happens,
and it's not too difficult to deal with it (as others have noted), but
I think it violates the principle of least astonishment. Writing to a
PDS as a PS dataset is almost certainly done by accident. It would
be nice it IDCAMS would just say "You didn't want to do that.".
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Why should IDCAMS be any smarter than IEBGENER ?? Both can have the same
"problem".
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