ALLOC may well take whatever you specify last and ignore what came before -- I don't know. NEW CATLG DELETE is adding to the confusion. Try just NEW CATLG.
Sometimes installations' SMS is set up to put datasets on some "temp" volume and automatically delete them at end of session. Can you try specifying a different SMS class? Charles On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:57:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:32:16 -0400, Joseph Reichman wrote: > >>This is from my job at the irs so I can’t cut and paste as I have trouble >>sending outbound email >>From [email protected] >> >In a similar situation (but not breaking any rule), I photograpned the >screen with my iPhone, uploaded, and used Preview->Tools->Text Selection >and copied selected text. > >>So here goes >> >> ALLOC FI(‘O7010111) NEW CATALOG DELETE >>DA(‘IFU05.BMF701.C39.O7010111’) USING(DCBPARAM) SPACE(15,15) CYLINDERS >>STORCLAS(STANDARD) MGMTCLAS(MTSOPRM) >> >The syntax diagram in: ><https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=command-allocate-syntax> > >shows DELETE and CATALOG as mutually exclusive. Does ALLOCATE >not provide an error message? > >-- >gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
