Au contraire. It is often useful. I see it used in cataloged procs all the time. And I would be confident that Itschak knows what it does.
It is always easy to criticize anyone's question: "that's stupid! What would you want to do that for?" but there is often a good reason were you to understand the OP's entire situation and constraints. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=? Well, yet another typical IBM-MAIN thread. Speculation, tangents, assumptions, misconceptions, irrelevancies, etc. As to the long-forgotten original question, JCL DDNAME is a rarely useful feature. It is supported by neither DYNALLOC nor ALLOCATE. I'm not sure what the OP thinks it does, but it probably doesn't. sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
