I'm not sure I'm interpreting this properly, but it sounds like you have a product and want to support what your customers do when accessing a PDS (even if they code it badly). My confusion comes from your reference to the JFCB, since it suggests that you are checking to see what they have coded, instead of simply overriding whatever they have coded with the proper disposition. Since you have the JFCB, just set the DISP and issue an OPEN TYPE=J and be done with it. That way it doesn't make any difference what they have coded (since whatever they have coded shouldn't make any difference anyway).
You don't have to explain it to them, nor do you have to justify your actions. You're simply taking the choice away from them regardless of what they code and doing it properly. >I've found the immediate problem. Where my code apparently really should be >testing for NEW or MOD it was testing only for MOD, and as JCL apparently >populates JFCBIND2 with NEW (x'C0') for both NEW and MOD my code was failing >for both cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
