On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:43:07 -0800, Ray Mullins wrote:
>
>In z/OS 1.13, I'm playing with instream data in a PROC for the first time to
>try to simplify some bind JCL and I've run into an error. It's an atypical
>situation, I realize.
>
Of course, instream data in a PROC are (sic!?) a relatively new facility.
They may not have attained a robust maturity.

> From a logic standpoint, this makes sense, but I'm wondering if this is WAD
>(thou shalt not override instream data) or maybe DD concatenation needs some
>extra checks if the underlying DD is instream (or does not have a DSN). I am
>curious as how this would be handled if the DD was a SUBSYS.
> 
The question this brings to mind is, "When I override an instream data set
with something else, what does the reader/converter/interpreter do with
the data?"

-- gil

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