On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:09:24 -0500, J R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe Scott is correct. > >If you allocate a dataset without specifying its volser, >allocation will run the DSAB queue *before* looking in >the catalog. If a dataset of the same name is already >allocated, that's the same one that will be used in the >subsequent allocation. >
I just tried that and it didn't work for me . You (or someone else) is welcome to try and see if they get different results. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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