On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yes, that would be easy. More difficult would be to maintain the ENQ > across deallocation and reallocation to different DDNAMES for use in > different steps.
> Would you want to allocate all of the data sets for a hundred steps at > the same time in the beginning of the job? Even for those steps that > are skipped? What happens if you need to add or remove a step? So maybe the job declares the data sets at the start, but the DDNAMEs are dynamic. Declaring and allocating/using are different... -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
