On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:13:53 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

>Norbert Friemel wrote:
>
>>Not all IDCAMS-Options are available in JCL, but you can use temporary VSAM 
>>data sets (DSN=&&MYDSN,DISP=(,PASS)) in JCL (you can't "define" 
>>temporary data sets with IDCAMS)
>
>Temp VSAM? Interesting, there must be a reason for that. Perhaps temp 
>holdplace during creation of DB2 tables?
> 
Testing?  I've run an entire SMP/E experiment in a single batch job.
IDCAMS to create a CSI; GIMSMP with FUNCTION(s) in instream
SMPPTFIN; IDCAMS DELETE (I had been unaware of temp VSAM; I
thought VSAM requires CATALOG, and CATALOG hates temp DSN).

(LISTSERV (or is it the sender's MUA?) does strange things to
ampersands.)

-- gil

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