The enqueue happens at job start. So DFHSM can't get DISP=NEW to create it (or 
OLD to rewrite it

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> On Behalf Of Vince Getgood
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 12:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: Odd behaviour with DFHSM & DFSORT in batch.
> 
> 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.
> 
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