On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:38:41 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > >Now, go whack the person that wrote the JCL that has the following >similarly coded DD statement: > >//SYSUT3 DD UNIT=3390,SPACE=(CYL,10),DISP=(NEW,CATLG) > >This is what produces a data set name like this: >SYS12048.T104505.RA000.IBMUSER.R0100008 > >The DISP is NOT needed for a "step only" work file / data set. So during >DEALLOCATION at step end, this type of data set just goes away. > Indeed. And for good measure, I'd whack the z/OS (...OS/360?) designer who decided that the proper behavior in this case is to KEEP but not CATLG the data set. I'd have made CATLG without DSNAME a JCL syntax error and never initiated the job.
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