On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:14:10 -0400, Charles Mills wrote: >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. > However, I once tried to use it by overriding a DD in a cataloged PROC with DDNAME= so I could add a mention of an OUTPUT statement in the referenced DD. Failed with mysterious message. Went to SR. Got an explanation of the convoluted logic involved and WAD. Sigh.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Smith >Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:27 PM > >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. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
