>What is in fact the problem with this job, that the SORTWK specification >should be changed from JCL to dynamic? [snip]
I totally agree with all you write. I don't know, and honestly I don't understand why they were asked to do change. I was only contacted by the desperate developer when he recognized the change could lead to production job abends. This was just before the software delivery cycle. I tried to understand how the parameters for the dynamic allocation work, so as to be able to give good recommendation to them. By testing, I found that the DYNAPCT creates some reserve work space data sets, but the total space of *all* the reserve data sets is roughly the space of a *single* initial work data set. Doesn't make sense to me, and IBM seems to agree. Therefore the PMR. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
