John Eells wrote:
>My first thought when I read this was, "How on earth did we miss seeing that
>migration action in our reviews?" But in the z/OS V1.9 DFSORT Application
>Programming Guide and later editions, I see this same statement under topic
>2.4, "Using DD Statements":
>"2. When using DFSORT applications, FREE=CLOSE cannot be used on any DD
>statements except DFSPARM."
Indeed. This is a somewhat old thing.
>So...what led your users think this is a new restriction? (It seems as though
>we might have to fix something, somewhere, but what?)
Not new and certainly not restricted to DFSORT, but see this note from 'DFSORT
Tuning Guide' for example:
<quote>
These are some of the circumstances that prevent the use of ICEGENER:
- A SYSIN DD statement other than SYSIN DD DUMMY is present.
- Detection of an error before DFSORT has started the copy operation
- A condition listed in DFSORT message ICE160A as follows:
1 The SYSUT1 or SYSUT2 data set was BDAM.
2 FREE=CLOSE was specified.
3 An attempt to open a data set caused a system error.
4 The SYSUT1 or SYSUT2 data set resided on an unsupported device.
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<end quote>
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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