Is DUMMY in the TIOT? I recall that I asked on this list a while ago and I believe the answer was that it is in the TIOT only in the sense that TIOT->JFCB which contains "NULLFILE".
Is there a DCB readily available from fopen()? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DDNAME= oddity In <016801cb97e6$8fffcf50$afff6d...@org>, on 12/09/2010 at 01:18 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> said: >I'm trying to figure out how to recognize the condition it. In HLA you have several options. In each case the documentation tells you how to recognize DUMMY. * Use DEVTYPE * Look at the TIOT entry * I believe that DYNALLOC allocation retrieval will tell you * If you did an OPEN, look in the DCB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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