Is RLSE ever effective on an input DD (a DD that the program opens for input)?

Oh wait, INFILE is an output DD. Never mind.

In that case Dr. M. could look into the DD:ddname syntax now supported by FTP.

It's also *possible* that a succeeding IEFBR14 step would solve this.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Tom Marchant
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 10:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: RLSE does not work with PGM=FTP

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 20:29:09 -0500, Barry Merrill wrote:

>Using IBM FTP CS V2R1, the uploaded INFILE's excess space is not RLSE'd.
>
>//FTPUP     EXEC PGM=FTP,PARM='(EXIT=4'
>//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*,DCB=BLKSIZE=133
>//SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=*
>//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
>//FTPOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
>//INFILE   DD DSN=MXGLRG.CICS.UNTERSE,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,CATLG),
>//            UNIT=(3390,1),DSNTYPE=LARGE,
>//            DSORG=PS,RECFM=FB,LRECL=1024,BLKSIZE=6144,
>//            SPACE=(CYL,(500,500),RLSE)
>//SYSIN    DD *
>99.99.99.99
>USERID   PASSWORDPHRASE
>BINARY
>GET CICS2.terse +
>          'MXGLRG.CICS.UNTERSE' (replace CLOSE QUIT

RLSE is not an attribute that stays with the data set. AFAIK, it only applies 
to the access with that DD statement. If you were to run a step like this:

//COPY   EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*
//ALLOC     DD  DISP=(NEW,CTLG),DSN=SOME.DATA.SET,
//          SPACE=(TRK,(20,20),RLSE)
//SYSUT1    DD  *
record 1
record 2
//SYSUT2    DD  DISP=OLD,DSN=SOME.DATA.SET

I think that you would find that the excess space for SOME.DATA.SET is not 
released because the data is not written using the DD statement that has RLSE 
specified.

Likewise, FTP isn't using the INFILE DD statement.

This is only a guess, based upon my understanding of how RLSE works. 
I could be wrong.

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