On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:19:56 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote:

>Thanks, Dave, you pointed me in the right direction although the FDR 
>documentation makes it sound like it doesn't matter how the DSNENQ option is 
>set.  I found this little tidbit in the FDR manual:
>
>If a data set name appears in a DD statement with DISP=SHR within the
>FDR job (not necessarily in the FDR step, FDR changes the scheduler
>enqueue for the data set to EXCLUSIVE (DISP=OLD). The data set may be
>unavailable to other tasks until the FDR job ends.
> 
Nowadays it might downgrade the ENQ to the initial SHR status at completion.

If it cared to.

("scheduler" enqueue?  What's a scheduler that performs enqueues?)

It hardly matters unless there are additional steps in the job.

-- gil

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