If the customer has to specify any JCL, then using a specified DDname is the idiomatic way to go.
DEVTYPE is dead simple for sniffing out DUMMY vs. spool vs. DASD vs. TAPE vs. missing. I wouldn't use RDJFCB just for that. sas On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:39 AM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > 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 > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
