You didn't specify disposition. it defaulted to OLD. Try 'SHR' at the end of the alloc statement.
ITschak On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Maria Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > I am writing to a partitioned dataset via the EXECIO command. > The dataset is also currently in use by an active application, which causes > my EXECIO command to fail with "DATA SET IS ALLOCATED TO ANOTHER JOB > OR USER". Is there anway to get around this with execio? > > I can manually edit and save the file without any problems while the > dataset is > in use by the app. > > "ALLOC F(INDD) da("dsnname")" > "execio * DISKW indd (STEM LINES. FINIS" > "Free File(indd)" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
