Good Day To All, Could someone clarify the explanation and my understanding about the SHARE parm when using COPY. Following is the explanation in the doc:
SHARE specifies that DFSMSdss is to share the data sets to be copied for read access with other programs. SHARE and FULL are mutually exclusive; you cannot specify these keywords together. Do not specify DELETE if you specify SHARE. You must have exclusive control over data sets that are to be deleted; SHARE does not require such exclusive control. Note: Unlike the RESTORE command, the COPY command honors the SHARE keyword for VSAM data sets. However, the SHARE keyword is only honored for VSAM data sets that were defined with share options other than (1,3) or (1,4). Specifying the SHARE keyword does not cause DFSMSdss to honor the share options that are defined for VSAM data sets. For VSAM data sets that are defined with share options other than (1,3) or (1,4), specifying the SHARE keyword allows other programs to obtain read access. It does not, however, allow write access to the data sets while they are being copied. For VSAM data sets that are defined with share options (1,3) or (1,4), neither read access nor write access by other programs is allowed while the data set is being copied. If my understanding is correct the SHARE parm applis to VSAM dsns which are defined with share options (2,3) . However the dsn in question is that it is an OAM file. Would the SHARE apply to OAM dsns as well? Before the COPY is executed the file is closed on CICS. However after the COPY step has executed of the dsn (no warnings or errors received) the job abends at the following step which tries to enable the file on CICS because the dsn is not released from the job until it completes. The job has 6 steps. My question is shouldn''t the dsn be released after the COPY step is has completed or does dsn is released at the end ot the job? Could someone please clear this up for me? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
