Guys, Answer this simple question, Barbara said it best ...job executes, her sample rc=0 , being a IEFBR14 ..I know does basically nothing ...it must drive catalog management ..but with a 0 allocation for a PDS directory it should have never worked according to manuals and to me common sense ...this smells like a simple apar able bug ......
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <gerh...@valley.net> wrote: > >> On 9/19/2013 8:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> But I'll welcome a refutation, with accompanying test cases. > > (Un)fortunately, you won't get one. I just ran a number of tests, and in each > case the DUMMY allocation produced both a TIOT and JFCB identical to the one > with DSN=NULLFILE. I tried a plain entry, one with DCB parameters, one with a > volume serial, and one with a serial and explicit unit address. Interestingly > enough, the TIOT unit field was zero for all cases, but the JFCB did show the > DCB and serial when used. > > I distinctly recall that at one time NULLFILE allocated a unit if one was > specified, but I don't recall when (MVT?). > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, Vermont > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
