Yeah, reading between the lines is unreliable. Do you have a chron job to prune your $TMPDIR?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 16:19:16 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Then you only need two steps; you can create a new temporary dataset in the >AMATERSE step and a (maybe) new Unix file in the send step. > He never explained the need to delete an existing file rather than just overwriting it. But there are plausible reasons such as ownership, permissions, and extended attributes. My ~/.profile creates a $TMPDIR peculiar to my user name and writable only by me, to prevent meddling. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
