On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:14:43 +0000, Bill Fairchild wrote: >Assuming you have the authority to do so, superzap the F1 DSCB for your source >PDS so that its DSORG is PS instead of PO. Then do your IEBGENER. Then zap >the F1 back to PO. It might work. I have never tried this myself. > Perhaps you don't know about overrides in JCL DD and ALLOCATE commands?
Adding to my prior remark, specify _everything_ in SYSUT1 DD. DSORG, RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE. On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:56:31 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Lizette's point that IBM can change the information in a PDS directory >without notice is of course generically correct > >That conceded, such changes have been infrequent for many years; and >the functional stabilization of PDS support that came about with the >introduction of PDSEs makes further such changes unlikely. Brutally >put, PDSEs are changing, PDSs are not. > So much IBM software (probably ISPF) and customer software depend on the PDS directory format that I understand that a PDSE can be opened as PS and PDSE support emulates the PDS directory format. >Have you succeeded in opening your PDS as a sequential file? > I've done it in Rexx. Assembler is for people who like that sort of thing. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
