On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:45:58 -0800, Scott Ford wrote: >I have the following situation:
I'm having trouble parsing your post. Do you mind if I pick it apart? >I am calling a program via Cobol You have a Cobol program? >and the output is RECFM=VBA,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=1330 (only an example) >The actual allocations are done dynamically via BPXWDYN and work fine >no problem. Ok. There is no DD statement in your JCL. >I then close the file and free it and re-allocate it ( no JCL ) for this >file its dynamic and of course I can read it. After writing the data set, you close it, free it and reallocate it so that you can open it for input? Same DDNAME or different? >If I code a 'DD' with a RECFM=VB,LRECL=137 it works great with no problems. Ok. I assume without the BPXWDYN calls? >I can I do the same internally inside my Cobol code without a 'DD' stmt ? Isn't that what you said you were doing first with BPXWDYN? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
