On Jun 7, 2015, at 10:50 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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.----------------------------
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Gil,
I used to play around quite a bit with iebupdte. I always used to use
PARM=NEW with massive updates.
You might want to try that as well.
I don't think this will get around your lrecl issue but I think if
you try and apar you will get WAD . I *think* PDSE's are slightly
different flavor.
Ed
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