I think you need to do a:
call bpxwdyn "alloc fi(pax) DSN('"aBackupDsn"') OLD release"
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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:12 AM
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Subject: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS
I'm trying to use pax to write to a ddname. I'm doing this from a REXX exec
that's running in batch under IKJEFT01. I'm not getting it to work.
The following code:
...
wCMD = "pax -w -X -z -x pax -f //DD:PAX" aDir "ALLOC DD(PAX)
DSN('"aBackupDsn"') OLD release"
paxRC = bpxwunix(wCMD,,stdout.,stderr.)
do line# = 1 to stderr.0
say stderr.line#
End
"FREE DD(PAX)"
...
Results in
pax: //DD:PAX: EDC5037I The specified ddname was not found.
I assume this is because the default _BPX_SHAREAS setting causes the pax
command to run in a different address space, without access to the DDNAME (I
did run a version of the code with a LISTA STATUS to verify the dataset was
allocated to the DDNAME).
I can't figure out how to override this setting for my IKJEFT01 step.
Any thoughts, or other ideas how to write the pax output to a ddname?
(I also tried it by specifying a ddname in the bpxwunix call instead of the
stdout., but got a truncation error. I suspect that's because it exceeded the
2048 limit)
Thanks,
Bart
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