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.
>
>
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