On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:42:55 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:17:19 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:11:42 -0500, Frank Schubert wrote:
>>>
>>>No one seems to have hit upon the exact cause of your problem. It has
>>>nothing to do with what you have in your JCL, except for the DISP on the
>>>IEFBR14 step. What you have done wrong, although wrong is a subjective
>>>term in this case, is tried to create a PDS dataset using DISP=MOD, when a
>>>PS dataset with the same name already existed. ...
>>>
In fact, if the data set does not pre-exist, I verified by
experiment that DSORG=PS causes no problem.
>>If the COPY step specified:
>>
>> //SYSUT2 DD VOL=REF=*.ALLOC.PRTLIB,...
>>
>>... would it have used the data set from ALLOC (uncatalogued;
>>likely not what the OP wanted)?
>
>No, as above.
>
OK. I see.
>>Isn't there an option to cause catalog errors to ABEND or at least
>>cause bad RC from the step? (But this frustrates the OP's apparent
>>intent to make the JCL reusable.)
>
>There is. Or was. IIRC it was a simple USERMOD. It is not needed for
>SMS-managed data sets.
>
Would this (PARMLIB option) have caused an error for:
IEF287I user.TSTPRB.COMPILE.OUTPUT NOT RECTLGD 2
... ?
-- gil
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