Well, actually I have read that section, although some time ago. I am very surprised to see that Richard Pinion's post was a direct quote from there! Sorry for assuming it
So I still have the same question, I just don't hope much for an answer, as it would presumably have to be answered by whoever wrote that part of the manual. That sentence about "must set bit zero of the JFCBMASK+4 field to 1" is a non-sequitur in the middle of the discussion of JFCNWRIT. Again, I'm familiar with JFCNWRIT (and the fact it has a negative name, which is bad form). I have programs that set that when I don't want write-back, and I leave it when I do. I must have overlooked that part about the random bit in JFCBMASK before, but it sure isn't explained. sas On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:29 PM Sri h Kolusu <[email protected]> wrote: > >>But where did this undocumented flag that you're now setting come from > and how does it relate to JFCNWRIT? > > Steve, > > Looks like you skipped over "There's a long discussion of RDJFCB in > DFSMSdfp Advanced Services." > > If you read the "Reading and Modifying a Job File Control Block (RDJFCB > Macro)" section in the DFSMSdfp Advanced Services manual you would find the > recommendation. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
