In fact Shmuel is, as so often, quite wrong. IEHMOVE did require a DD statement for the target, move-to dataset; and I did not, of course, say that it did not.
It did not, however, move the source dataset directly to this target. Instead it allocated storage for a very different ********.********,,,,,,******** target dataset dynamically. Only after it had notionally completed its move to that interim, dynamically allocated dataset successfully did it rename it and scratch the source dataset. The problems were, to adopt part of one of Shmuel's overused locutions, in the details. In particular, IEHMOVE sometimes scratched the source dataset in circumstances in which the target dataset was unavailable/unusable. Shmuel has a long history of partial, selective quotation asnd equally selective fixation on irrelevant detail in orfer to make one of his debater's points. By now he is a fixture here. I should miss his posts if they ceased to appear on IBM-MAIN. They do, however, need to be understood for what they are, viz., the now sometimes ill-considered work of a gadfly. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
