On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:33:16 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No smoke involved. We have that here in many different programs, ALWAYS >check for BOTH '00' and '97'. Or better yet (as someone else mentioned) >an 88 level on the FILE-STATUS identifier with both values. > And sysplex has nothing to do with this really. It thought this needed to be done since DF/EF in the 80's. I guess if you've run into previous file status 97s, someone must have run a VERIFY. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

