Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Hmmm. A colleague eschews DSN=NULLFILE because he believes that the initiator issues an ENQ for NULLFILE. Is that also in the "statement used to be true" category?
I ran some tests, and on the earliest system I could get my hands on, MVS 3.8, DSN=NULLFILE is sufficient to define a dummy file, and it does not cause an ENQ. I do not recall having any enqueue hangs on the name, so I'm not even sure it was true in MVT.
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