On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 06:31:27 -0500, Daniel McLaughlin
<daniel_mclaugh...@us.crawco.com> wrote:

>OK...I'm a bit baffled and readily admit it. I've created an EXEC in REXX
to create
>a 12 step job to dump 420 DASD volumes to one 3592. Step one runs along fine
>and stacks all the volumes, 35 of them, fine in the first step. When the
next step
>starts it belches on the tape so I know it's not passed correctly. I am
sure it has
>to do with the RETAIN option..so do I put that on the last file of the
first step or
>the first file of the next or both? This is a DR type of thing and the
EXEC, which I
>inherited with the job, works great.
>
>And yes...I have read the JCL User guide but it ain't helping a lot...
>

Sharing some of your JCL (output, resolved with any symbolics used) and also
specific "error" information with an ABEND code would be helpful beyond
guessing.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

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