Hello,

Thanks for your question. In your three options, you are handling the 
temporary dataset ENQ issue correctly (I assume for #1 you meant 
RNAME(SYS1.) ). We actually wrote an article about this and other RNL 
Gotchas on page 42 of z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter #27 (
http://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/eoz2n1c0.pdf).

For future reference, GENERIC entries differ from SPECIFIC entries because 
they do not require a RNAME at all (QNAME is always required) and if you 
do specify an RNAME then it is treated as if you appended a wildcard 
character (*) to the end, so it matches any that begins with or is equal 
to the RNAME specification. PATTERN is a more powerful way of specifying 
wildcards. 

We noticed that the doc is not very explanatory of the different rules 
which apply to GENERIC and we will address that in the future. 

Thanks,

JG

Joe Gentile
z/OS GRS and Logger Development
[email protected]

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