On Fri, 29 May 2009 12:51:04 -0500, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >The second temporary file likely got the same extents as a previous temporary file. But I thought that SMS now forced an EOF to be written at allocation time. Are your temporary volumes not SMS managed? I know that we used to get all sorts of odd occurrances like this. Mainly "picking up garbage" from a temp file that was never OPENed for writing in a previous step. >
Ah, I found it in the manual. This only occurs if (1) the DSN is SMS managed and (2) the DSORG is PS. Number (2) can be done either via the DATACLAS or DSORG=PS on the DD statement. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
