John, I believe that you can have more than 255 dd statement by using XTIOT, the reverse order was IMO because of CVOL design issues. The order is reasonably important ( to me anyway) is that I have. Had to do a sort the file, programmers were not happy ( but understood) about the additional step.
One time I was working on a logrec report for the CE and I ran into an issue and had to sort the concatenation it wasn't huge but it took a day of debugging and a call to IBM and they talked about a Doc error. I never followed through as I had a work around. Ed Ps I am not sure that IBM could change the way it works now without adding a JCL parameter. Sent from my iPad On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:58 AM, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> wrote: > I agree entirely. I understand the 255 limit in the past when all we had > were CVOL catalogs and a 1 byte field. ICF catalogs don't work that way. > And, again, the reverse order made sense in the days of CVOL due to the > way that GDGs were actually implemented in CVOLs. Again, ICF catalogs > don't work that way. But I wonder what the JCL syntax would be to > specify the order. Hopefully something simple. > > But since GDG-ALL processing effectively creates a concatenated set of > DDs, what about the limit of 255 DDs per jobstep? How to do GDG-ALL of a > DSN with 1000 entries? > > On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:07 -0700, Ed Gould wrote: >> John: >> >> I think a prime requirement is to support more than 255 GDG entries and also >> a >> way to call them in order they were created. >> >> Ed >> > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
