I should have mentioned that behavior I described occurs when the volume field of LOADxx PARMLIB statements for such libraries is blank. The doc for the volume field includes:
"If '******' or '&SYSR1' is specified, IPL processing will attempt to locate the specified data set on the system residence volume. " and indeed it does. On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:14:44 -0700, Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> wrote: >The last couple of posts in this thread have overlooked Andy Higgins's >observation that &SYSR1--or any symbolic for that matter--cannot be used >to catalog a data set in the PARMLIB concatenation. The reason is that >symbolics are defined in PARMLIB members that themselves cannot be located >and processed until NIP knows how to find PARMLIB data sets. It's a >chicken-egg problem. > > >. >. >JO.Skip Robinson >Southern California Edison Company >Electric Dragon Team Paddler >SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager >626-302-7535 Office >323-715-0595 Mobile >jo.skip.robin...@sce.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
