John McKown wrote on 01/15/2008 02:01:10 PM: > And I might mention that DUMMY is __required__. We had some jobs that > ran with SYSIN being a DD *, but with no control cards. This is, > technically, equivalent to DUMMY, but not by ICEGENER. The same applies > to an "empty" dataset with no control cards. Just mentioning this > because it bit us once.
Yes, DUMMY or NULLFILE or no SYSIN DD is required to have ICEGENER use DFSORT copy. ICEGENER does not consider an empty data set to be the same as DUMMY. I suppose it could, but it doesn't and AFAIK you're the first person to ever mention it as a concern. I don't think I'd want to change it at this point because if I did, somebody else would surely complain that it doesn't work the way it used to. :-) Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
