He did code WAIT.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Ed Gould
Sent: Friday, 12 February 2016 3:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Odd behaviour with DFHSM & DFSORT in batch.
I think what is happening is that the HSEND command is done asynchronously and
therefor the dataset has not been created when the dfsort step runs.
You might code wait and that should help.
Ed
On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Vince Getgood wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've discovered some very odd behaviour when running a DFHSM command
> in the same batch job as a DFSORT step, and I'm completely baffled by
> what's happening.
>
> We're running z/OS 2.2, although it also happens on 1.3 and 1.10.
>
> I've written a piece of JCL that issues some DFHSM commands, runs a
> REXX to format the output, then a SORT to sort the formatted output.
> The job fails every time.
>
> I've re-coded the job a number of times, and run the steps
> individually, and it seems the job *only* fails when the SORT step is
> included.
>
> Rather than post the whole job, I've discovered I can re-create the
> failure with a really simple example.
>
> Consider the following JCL: -
>
> <code>
> //HSMLIST EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1A
> //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
> //SYSTSIN DD *
> HSENDCMD WAIT LIST PVOL OUTDATASET('MAINT.TEMP.LIST') </code>
>
> This works as expected. If 'MAINT.TEMP.LIST' doesn't exist, it gets
> created. If it does, the responses from the LIST PVOL command are
> appended to the end of the dataset. All good so far.
>
> I create a new empty dataset, 'MAINT.TEMP.TEMP', based on
> 'MAINT.TEMP.LIST'. I then delete 'MAINT.TEMP.LIST', and run the
> following JCL:-
>
> <code>
> //HSMLIST EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1A
> //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
> //SYSTSIN DD *
> HSENDCMD WAIT LIST PVOL OUTDATASET('MAINT.TEMP.LIST')
> /*
> //SORTIT EXEC PGM=SORT
> //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
> //SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MAINT.TEMP.LIST
> //SORTOUT DD DISP=MOD,DSN=MAINT.TEMP.TEMP
> //SYSIN DD *
> SORT FIELDS=COPY
> /*
> </code>
>
> The job *fails* with a JCL error. I get the following message to my
> terminal: -
>
> ARC0141I ERROR ALLOCATING OUTPUT DATA SET
>
> The joblog for the SORT step shows:-
>
> IEFA107I xxxxxxxx SORTIT SORTIN - DATA SET MAINT.TEMP.LIST NOT FOUND
>
> Can anyone shed any light on what's happening here?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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