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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:47 PM, J O Skip Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > You might wonder what could go wrong in such a simple program. I never saw > it, but heard tell that the earliest version of IEFBR14 went PE because it > contained only one instruction: BR 14. That left the return code totally > unpredictable, so a PTF was released to SR 15,15. Maybe an urban legend, but > one too precious to debunk. > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 10:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IEFBR14 question > > If the dataset already exists then it doesn't try to create it and you do not > need the SPACE parm. But if it does not exist it first creats it, and then > deletes it. So you need the SPACE parm. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 9:10 AM > Subject: Re: IEFBR14 question > > Peter, > > Thank you very much ...haven't seen the message before ... > > Regards, > Scott > > On Monday, May 4, 2015, Farley, Peter x23353 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> SPACE=(0,0) eliminates the message. I usually also use UNIT=SYSDA, >> but YMMV. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected] >> <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Scott Ford >> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 10:54 AM >> To: [email protected] <javascript:;> >> Subject: IEFBR14 question >> >> All, >> >> I just came across something I haven't seen. I am building some canned >> JCL and I was testing a IEFBR14 step doing disp=(mod,delete,delete) on >> non-existent datasets wanting to see the return code passed back and >> saw this.... >> >> IGD17045I Space not specified for allocation of data set. >> >> This is non-SMS ... >> >> I am confused...guys and gals. >> >> Regards, >> Scott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
