On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:32:56 -0800, Scott Ford wrote: I am testing a BPXWDYN call in CobolĀ and I am building this allocate...
ALLOC DD(TEMPFLE) DA(PIONEER.TEST.SYSIN) NEW CATALOG UNIT(SYSDA) CYL SPACE(1,1) DSORG(PS) RECFM(F) LRECL(80) I have tied with and without BLKSIZE(80) and in either situation see a 4294967463 return code Do I assume the class code is 4 and the error is x'294' ...?? Big numbers make me think of allocation-detected problems. Can you try adding "MSG(WTP)" to see whether allocation tells you something in the job log? I tried your command from Rexx. I needed to change the HLQ, then it worked with no errors. If I knew COBOL I'd ask how you called BPXWDYN. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN