On Wednesday, 08/23/2006 at 09:31 AST, Julia Erickson 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I resolved my problem by putting // in front of dd: in the fopen 
command.  I 
> found this syntax at a dovetail site which was discussing BPX... 
routines.

The MAP in the z/OS C/C++ Programming Guide says that // is not required 
if the filespec is of the form dd:ddname.  The CMS C/C++ book says to see 
the z/OS book for the rules.

I'd suggest opening a PMR.  Either the code is wrong or the documentation 
is wrong or, at best, unclear.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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