Gil, What's the structure where the file is located you might need the entire Unix path
Regards, Scott On Thursday, February 12, 2015, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, not a good justification but perhaps some light on the topic: a JFCB > has a fixed-length 44-byte dataset name area JFCBDSNM. Obviously, that will > not accommodate most zFS filenames. When a DD statement references a zFS > file, the associated JFCBDSNM contains '...PATH=.SPECIFIED...'. (If it were > up to me I might have put the first or the last 44 characters of the > filename there and set bits to indicate (a.) zFS and (b.) truncation when > relevant. IBM did not ask me. Once again.) > > So the message writer was not so much intentionally obfuscating the path > name as simply (dumbly?) displaying the "dataset name" from the JFCB. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected] > <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:10 AM > To: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Subject: IKJ56228I vs. IEFA107I > > BPXWDYN() tells me: > > ***** in -sh -iLm ***** > User@MVS:500$ rexx "say bpxwdyn( 'alloc path(''/foo/bar'') msg(2)' )" > IKJ56228I PATH /foo/bar NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE ACCESSED > -32745 > > ... a reasonably informative diagnostic (but I find the reference to > "CATALOG" > misleading -- I doubt that a catalog search was ever attempted. IIRC, I > went to PMR on this long ago. WAD.) > > But in JCL for the same path: > > 46 //SMPNTS DD PATHOPTS=ORDONLY, > // PATH='/foo/bar/.' > ... > IEFA107I C07SETUP NTSTEST SMPNTS - DATA SET ...PATH=.SPECIFIED... NOT FOUND > IEF272I C07SETUP NTSTEST - STEP WAS NOT EXECUTED. > > Why is the pathname obfuscated in the message? Don't both BPXWDYN and > Initiator invoke Allocation ang get similar replies? Why doesn't Initiator > just show the pathname? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
