>Of course the delay is due to a programmer error with the JCL.... ... which is a result of the fact that the operating system doesn't offer a way to "delete, if present, then allocate new" in one step, something like DISP=(RENEW,CATLG). This would have avoided many of the unconditional IEFBR14s at the beginning of jobs using DISP=(MOD,DELETE) to make sure data sets don't exist.
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