In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:54:59 -0700 > > Not sure where SMS plays in here. > I tried it. If the data set is SMS controlled, it gets uncatalogued. And there's a significant difference in the allocation messages from the PASSing step. For the non-SMS case:
IEF236I ALLOC. FOR UNCAT STEP2 IEF237I 3CC0 ALLOCATED TO DD2 IEF142I UNCAT STEP2 - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 0000 IEF285I user.PASSED.DATASET PASSED IEF285I VOL SER NOS= volser. ... and the SMS case: IEF236I ALLOC. FOR UNCAT STEP2 IGD103I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME DD2 IEF142I UNCAT STEP2 - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 0000 IGD106I sms.prfx.PASSED.DATASET PASSED, DDNAME=DD2 Note the IEF237I vs. IGD103I, and IEF285I vs. IGD106I. > I'd like to understand this all a little better but its not critical to my > world. I think you've hit the nail on the head. > Ain't MVS wonderful! I doubt any other OS provides such a variety of surprising and interesting behaviors. It's no wonder some consider operationg systems lacking such features "radically immature". -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html