On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 14:33:23 -0500, Larre Shiller wrote: >Hi Alan - > >These are JES3-managed tapes, so SMS isn't involved there. > >And as far as requiring TSO... I'm not 100% sure, but I know that they execute >DB2 PLANS that way. But if we do need to re-engineer the job, we could >certainly consider calling the COBOL program from a REXX, if that would help. > My unhappy experience has been that the restrictions apply to all tape DYNALLOC, whether from TSO or otherwise.
>Larre > > >Is it possible that the SMS ACS routines are not handling the dynamic >tape allocation properly? > >Another thought is does the step require TSO? If TSO is not required and >the program can be called from REXX, can the step execute IRXJCL instead >of IKJEFT1A? > ... and BPXWDYN instead of ALLOCATE (in some cases it works even better), but you wouldn't have OUTTRAP (I think) or LISTDSI (I'm sure), ... and you wouldn't be able to invoke APF-authorized utilities and ... MVS is chaos. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
