On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:13:26 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: >Elegant. I like that. It ought to work just fine. > >We make heavy use of such symbols. The price we pay is a setup >(MOD,DELETE) step to position for a rerun. Now, this works very well, >but the MOD,DELETE step for hundreds and hundreds of steps is S L O W as >a slug. We actually use a REXX DSLIST function that seems to be faster >than JCL, but it is still slow. >
Deletes should be really fast. Unless you're actually allocating drives and mounting tapes or something like that. One thing I found over the years is to code BR14 delete's like this: //SYSUT1 DD DSN=xxx.xxxx.xxxxxxxx, // DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE), // UNIT=(SYSDA,,DEFER), // SPACE=(TRK,(0,0),RLSE) Works on tape datasets and disk, doesn't matter if the dataset exists or not, and is fast. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
