Paul: There are many peculiarities with IEBPTPCH. Like it doesn’t output in member sequence (I vaguely remember that it is TTR sequence (but could be wrong). The control card format is anything but intuitive I am iffy here but IIRC you must specify maxflds (why I have no clue) I hated the damn program myself as I had to relearn the control cards all the time. IEHMOVE was another PITA. The only reason to use IEHMOVE (Memory is shady here people) is that it allocated the output file for you. Ed > On Jun 14, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:03:02 -0500, wrote: > >> I'm not sure why you'd think it may have problems punching/printing PDS >> members that happen to contain JCL which happens to contain IEBPTPCH >> commands. It's all just data to IEBPTPCH. >> > OK. I tried it. Members appear to be separated by lines of the form "MEMBER > NAME %%%%%%%%". > (Is this documented?) What happens if such a line appears in SYSUT1? I got: > > MEMBER NAME AAAWTF control line > Line before data line > MEMBER NAME FOOBAR data line (but how does it know?) > Line after data line > >> It is documented, you could consider giving it a whirl with something else >> and lettings us know. >> > Wherein I find gems such as: > > Both the output data set and the message data set can be written to the > system output device if it is a printer. > > What does that mean? If it's not a printer, can only one of them be written > to it? > > If the member card entry is not used, the entire data cell will be printed. > > How long has it been since IBM marketed a data cell? (I'll submit an RCF on > that.) > > How does one restore a PDS from IEBPTPCH output? It's probably somewhere. > I haven't found it. > > (Is this good old IBM documentation or sloppy new IBM documentation?) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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