On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:44:18 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote:

>I'd much prefer the latter, but of course have no idea how much work it would 
>be.
>
>What is your 'driver' for wanting this feature?  Mine is to eliminate the 
>requirement of the separate IEFBR14 to do a MOD,DELETE prior to doing a NEW.  
>Honestly have a hard time understanding how MVS has gone this long with that 
>kludgey (IMHO) behavior, but...
>
You don't need a separate IEFBR14 nor the overhead of DELETE and
re-create.  On occasion, I've done:

        ...
    //REUSE    DD  DISP=(MOD,CATLG),UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE=...,...
    //SYSUT2   DD  DISP=OLD,DSN=*.REUSE,VOL=REF=*.REUSE
        ...

-- gil

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