Coding it as two pipelines doesn't guarantee the proper sequence though, and you may _really want_ the release to occur before the detach if everything's happening inside some exec. "PIPE not command RELEASE X|spec /DET 120/|CP"
Mike Harding EDS VM National Capability 134 El Portal Place Clayton, Ca. USA 94517-1742 * phone: +01-925-672-4403 * Fax: +01-925-672-4403 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (personal) Note: For 2005, I am off on Fridays with even Julian dates and Mondays with odd ones. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:45 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: a really little pipe question Most of the time there is not even a need for a HOLE stage. HOLE is doing work: it is eating records, only the writing is skipped. When HOLE is ommitted the stage to its right doesn't even try to write records. Next point: never use the CMS stage, use COMMAND instead if you want to be sure of what happens. So, instead of: PIPE CMS REL X | HOLE | CP DETACH 120 | HOLE a tiny bit less expensive and safer: PIPE (end ?) COMMAND RELEASE X ? CP DETACH 120
