I have code that I maintain that supports (among other things) the allocation of a DD to a software vendor-provided subsystem we will call XXXX. My code does an SVC 99 dynamic allocation with text key 5F. At a particular customer the allocation succeeds without error but subsequent usage of the allocation by FTP fails with errno2=0xC00B0487, which is "A failure occurred using the OBTAIN macro to retrieve information about the data set."
I do not have the XXXX vendor subsystem installed so I cannot really duplicate the problem or test solutions and so forth. The customer is not particularly helpful, and even if I were to bother them I am not sure what I would ask for. 1. Is there any convenient "hack" for testing whether my SVC 99 is operating correctly and so forth? Anyone have any bright ideas how to test SVC 99 SUBSYS allocation when one does not have subsystem XXXX? Suppose for example that I wrote a test program that would try an OBTAIN against my allocation. Is there any way to come up with a subsystem name that will at least succeed through allocation? Is there a CBT program that implements some sort of subsystem (and is not a big deal of its own)? 2. Long shot: anyone ever seen this? Any bright ideas what the problem might be? Two details: the DS name is an alias and there is a member name. IOW, the SVC 99 is equivalent to DSN=DATASET.ALIAS.NAME(MEMBER),DISP=SHR,SUBSYS=XXXX. The SVC 99 completes without error, and all works correctly if there is no SUBSYS in the picture, or the DSN is not an alias. FTP works correctly if I have the customer allocate the DD with JCL, so there is no intrinsic FTP issue with aliases and SUBSYS. Sorry if this question is a little vague and ill-formed. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
