van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote: 

>Thanks Elardus,  
 
You're welcome! :-)

>z/OS in question is z/OS 1.12 

Ok.

>Should have clarified this in my original note, but I'm not trying to write to 
>a 'unix' file, I'm trying to write to a MVS dataset allocated to a DDName. 
>Using a dataset name in the pax command works fine, but I want to use a DDName 
>so that I can code RELEASE or write to tape.  

Then I suspect the ALLOC command is not working 100% with that keyword 
combination. Could you try out TRACE in your REXX program to see what is 
happening when REXX is trying to execute ALLOC command? 

If ALLOC is working (you see the DD is allocated at all), then I'm at lost.

HTH! 
 
Groete / Greetings 
Elardus Engelbrecht 

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