Robin,
Please delete any part of the email you did a REPLY to that does not pertain to
your question. It tends to confuse the issue.
Next, I am not clear on Reading a VS on JES2 Spool. JES2 Spool has its own
unique process for creating SYSOUT. So if you could explain further that could
help.
If you are asking about a job that abended when trying to Read a VS dataset and
got an S013-A8, then that is a different question.
When I look up your abend code
An incorrect record format was requested for a SYSIN, SYSOUT, or subsystem data
set with BSAM or QSAM or for a z/OS UNIX directory with BPAM. One of the
following conditions was detected:
RECFM=D was specified.
Variable spanned records (VS or VBS) were requested for input.
Both ANSI and machine control characters were specified.
Please show the JCL from the job that runs good and the job that fails. You
can change the dataset name and I think we only need the JCL to see the way it
is coded.
Again, you would read SYSOUT On JES2 not a VS dataset on JES2. Unless your
application is trying to run a JES2 SSI function to read SYSOUT.
Please provide further details.
And if you could post the complete IEC141 I message, that would also be
helpful. Again just change the dataset name.
Lizette
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Robin Atwood
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 5:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: IEC141I 013-A8: how to read VS data sets?
>
> One of our apps abends if trying to read a VS data set on the JES2 spool. The
> message manual tells me this is because it is not allowed to read VS SYSOUT
> using QSAM. Yet we have another application which does exactly that.
> Furthermore, after one day of staring at the code I cannot see any functional
> difference between the two routines:
> both use identical DCB/DCBEs. SDSF can read the data set of course, but I
> expect it has some internal interface. So I searched on what is the correct
> way to read VS data sets and found virtually nothing. Anybody got any
> experience of this?
>
> Thanks
> Robin
>
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