It is, but it fools the converter/interperter into thinking there really is a dataset there and allows the concatenation to proceed, as opposed to DD DUMMY which "truncates" the concatenation.
Agreed, the effect at execution time is the same. <snip>>Try DSN=NULLFILE. See the JCL manuals... > We had this discussion about a year ago. At that time everyone except John Gilmore agreed that both according to the JCL manuals and empirically DSN=NULLFILE is quite indistinguishable from DUMMY. >I sure wish DUMMY didn't truncate the concatenation, but </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
