On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:52:09 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Circumventions: > >o I don't use VIO. Can't control what other shops use or do in SMS code. > >o I pass the returned ddname to the utility in an alternate ddname parameter. > >o I allocate to the DDNAME I intend to use later. This can look bizarre: > > call BPXWDYN( 'alloc dd(SYSIN) unit(VIO) ...' ) > 'EXECIO' stem.0 'DISKW SYSIN (stem stem.' Again, I needed to do the EXECIO to a PDS member. > >As someone suggested earlier, who needs VIO nowadays? Can't control what other shops use or do in SMS code. >But the academic >question remains: Is it possible to dynamically reallocate a VIO data >set to a different DDNAME? Rexx? Otherwise (other than JCL referback)? >How does JCL do it? > -- 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
