Before I move on to the next function of my Easytrieve program, I thought I'd ask for some insight from those who have used BPXWDYN.
And before anyone says RTFM, I have. Okay, here's the issue, the documentation does not include DEFER as an option for dynamic allocation functions. At least not in a way that I interpret it as being available. However, that said, there is a TU() parameter with which one can supply an SVC 99 Text Unit that has been coded by hand. So, has anyone issued a BPXWDYN request for ALLOC in which they have coded a TU() parameter with an allocation text unit for DEFER? Next, I need to concatenate the "n" number of datasets from another program's selection process together for processing. I can allocate the first dataset with an explicit DD name and then I can allocate the remaining datasets with a return DD name parameter. This, then, allows me to issue a concatenation function and concatenate them all together under the name of the first, supplied DD name. But, I need to have unit affinity so that they all go thru the same logical unit. Yes, these are all tape datasets. This is what I am trying to accomplish using BPXWDYN: //INDSN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dataset1 // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dataset2,UNIT=AFF=INDSN // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dataset3,UNIT=AFF=INDSN // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dataset4,UNIT=AFF=INDSN Anyone ever do anything like this? Thanks, Chuck Charles (Chuck) Hardee<mailto:[email protected]> Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration EAS Information Technology<mailto:DBA%20Engineering%20-%20DB2_IDMS> Thermo Fisher Scientific 300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh, PA 15275 Phone +1 (724) 517-2633 | Mobile +1 (412) 877-2809 | FAX: +1 (412) 490-9230 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.thermofisher.com WORLDWIDE CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent of a system responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete all copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
