Well, there is no EXEC anywhere in the question but yes, changing the specs to make the customer supply a DS name rather than a DD statement might be an approach.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 8:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Any easier way to determine if DD is dummy than GETDSAB? Why don't youb simply get the dsname as parm to your exec and perform dynamic allocation if a dsname exist in the parm field? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN