I want to say - Sri - Thank You for your above and beyond help on ALL the 
list’s.
Your mentor would be very proud indeed! 
Big shoes to fill and you have done an amazing job!
Best Regards, Doug Shupe


Stay Safe

>> On Jul 9, 2020, at 18:29, 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.
> 
> Here is the link for V2R3 pdf
> 
> https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3sc236861/$file/idas300_v2r3.pdf
> 
> The Tip is documented on Page 255 under the "Reading and Modifying a Job
> File Control Block (RDJFCB Macro)" section
> 
> OP wanted to get his IFG0EX0B exit working and I just helped to debug and
> make it work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kolusu
> DFSORT Development
> IBM Corporation
> 
> IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on
> 07/09/2020 02:21:03 PM:
> 
>> From: Steve Smith <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: 07/09/2020 02:21 PM
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IFG0EX0B to increase secondary allocation
>> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
>> 
>> I don't follow.  I understand the JFCNWRIT flag, as it's documented.  I
>> don't know why you would set it in the first place if you don't have a
> good
>> reason for it.  But where did this undocumented flag that you're now
>> setting come from and how does it relate to JFCNWRIT?
>> 
>> sas
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 1:40 PM PINION, RICHARD W.
>> <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Sri Kolusu, of IBM, for
> taking
>>> the time
>>> to help with the open exit IFG0EX0B, in regards to IEBGENER/ICEGENER
> and
>>> DF/SORT.
>>> He has spent the last few days researching and testing.
>>> He came up with a solution, and the exit is now working with
>>> IEBGENER/ICEGENER
>>> and DF/SORT.  Below is the solution he came up with.
>>> "And the reason as to why the increased secondary quantity in the 3.4
> is
>>> because you haven't forced the modified JFCB writeback into the DSCB
>>> There's a long discussion of RDJFCB in DFSMSdfp Advanced Services.
>>> Tip: If you set the bit JFCNWRIT in the JFCBTSDM field to 1 before you
>>> issue the OPEN macro instruction, the JFCB is not written back at the
>>> conclusion of open processing. OPEN TYPE=J normally moves your
> program's
>>> modified copy of the JFCB, to replace the system copy. To ensure that
> this
>>> move is done, your program must set bit zero of the JFCBMASK+4 field to
> 1.
>>> IBM recommends not setting on JFCNWRIT.
>>> So I would add the flag to set jfcbmask+4 bit 0 to 1 when the secondary
>>> gets modified.
>>> Here is the modified code at label STSQTY (in blue color)
>>> STSQTY EQU *                      STORE SECONDARY QTY
>>>       STCM RODD,7,JFCBSQTY
>>>       OI JFCBMASK+4,X'80'        REQUEST JFCB WRITEBACK
>>>       LA RINCODE,MODJFCB         JFCB MODIFIED
>>>       RETSQTY EQU *              RETURN FROM SQTY
>>>       BR RET                     RETURN "
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