On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:22:27 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:03:51 -0600, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Well, I do see a typo in the DDname, which is one of the things I mentioned >>in my last reply: >> >>> "EXECIO * DISKW DLBUT1 (OPEN)" >>> "ALLOC DSNAME('"||dsname||"') DDNAME(BLDUT1) OLD " >> >I like to use, when convenient: > > signal on novalue > call BPXWDYN( 'alloc rtddn(MYDD) ...' ) > 'EXECIO 1 DISKR' MYDD '(...' > >which makes such errors glaringly obvious. It also avoids the need >for random DD names which I've seen in some of your macros. Let >SVC 99 do the dirty work instead. > I'm not in love with BPXWDYN as much as you - only because I haven't used it that much, but I'll keep that in mind if / when I have to make any major updates. All the random DD code predates BPXWDYN and of course what works in one of my execs is easily cut/pasted into another one. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
