From a recent experiment: READY allocate dsn('sys1.maclib','sys1.modgen') IKJ56700A ENTER FILE NAME - foo READY allocate dsn('sys1.maclib') READY
Empirically, if I allocate a single data set, ALLOCATE generates a DDNAME; if I allocate multiple data sets, I must supply a DDNAME. (Have I inferred the rule correctly?) I find no mention of such a restriction in TFM: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ikjc500/alloccmd.htm Is there any plausible rationale for this distinction? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN