Thank you all for for help. The obvious question that remains is: how does the operating systen itself maintain a continuous ENQ over several job steps for a dataset allocated in the first step with disp=(mod,pass)? Is there a special privileged ENQ operation that only the operating system has access to?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > Jousma, David wrote: > > ... I'd use standard JCL DISP=OLD processing on a dummy dataset name that >> includes the program name as part of it. >> > > Maybe someone mentioned this already, but I was thinking even simpler - > use the same job name each time if the user has no control over the JCL, > with JES2 DUPL_JOB=DELAY which I think might be the default. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] 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
