Thanks all for your responses. Allan, I DELETED ‘MAINT.TEMP.LIST’ before running the second job – can’t get more freed than that…
I tried pre-allocating it – Still get the ARC0141I message. Kolusu, I’m sorry, you are wrong. OUTDATASET is created by DFHSM at the time of issuing the LIST command. The job DOES have two steps. John, Best explanation yet! But, and here I’m showing a little ignorance, I’m running JES2. I didn’t think JES2 did any enqueues until the step started? As per my original post, I need to run a SORT on the "real" ‘MAINT.TEMP.LIST’, so the IDCAMS doesn’t help me. The SORT step I coded was just for demonstration purposes. Ed, That’s more or less what John said. I thought the WAIT parameter would resolve that issue though. On more investigation, there is nothing in the joblog for the HSMLIST step regarding the final disposition of 'MAINT.TEMP.LIST', regardless of if I run it on it's own, or as part of the two step job coded in my OP. This lends credence to what Ed and John are saying. Even though I've coded WAIT on the DFHSM LIST command, the HSMLIST step is finishing and the SORTIT step starts before 'MAINT.TEMP.LIST' is allocated, hence the ARC0141I message and the JCL error. Looks like I may have to do two jobs, or put some sort of "filler" step between the HSMLIST & SORTIT steps. Vince. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
