On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:09:45 +0100, Terry Sambrooks wrote: > > IEBUPDTE will not know what attributes apply. > In neither case was DCB information supplied before OPEN, yet one case worked, presumably because IEBUPDTE supplies DCB info by default. It remains a puzzle that the other case failed.
>As regards the ADD statements. These have no bearing on DISPosition. It does >not matter whether the data set is new or already exists, to create a new >member the ./ ADD statement is used and to replace an existing member the ./ >REPLACE statement is used. There is a functional split here between system >responsibility (OPEN/CLOSE) and program logic (ADD/REPLACE). > Mostly true. It's documented that STOW of a duplicate member name will fail if DISP=MOD but succeed if DISP=OLD. But that does not seem relevant to what I observe. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
