In <4b17e85d.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com>, on 12/03/2009 at 04:33 PM, Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com> said:
>So you are saying that there is no point doing the two step process I >mention because it will have the file enqueued for the life of the job no >matter what, if DISP=OLD is specified? Not quite; the Initiator will release it at the end of the last step that has a DD statement for it. So if you can arrange to do all of your work in a few short steps at the beginning, you can let other jobs use it after that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html