Anthony, Thank you, that's been my past experience also..
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 13, 2012, at 9:57 AM, "Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I ran a test on my 1.11 system using IEFBR14, COBOL, and both SMS and non-SMS > datasets, no problems. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Ford [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IEFBR14 > > Guys, > > Let me say this, working mvs since 1972 , then os/vs2/hasp, I hadn't seen a > iefbr14 except in a case where the DATASET was uncataloged, if my old memory > is serving correctly. The situation I am asking about about , was a z/os 1.11 > shop.. IEFBR14 used to allocate Non-SMS DATASET, COBOL goes to read it and > Abend s001-4. If I mislead anyone, sorry..just trying to get an explanation > to this wierd situation. Looks like its a change as Mark pointed out in Z/OS > 1.11 . > > Hth > Regards, > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Mar 13, 2012, at 9:19 AM, J R <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, I know that you and most all others knew what the reality of the >> situation is. However, the OP's posts in this thread are worded in such a >> way that it's *not* clear that he understands that reality. (That's why my >> response was to his post, not yours.) ;-) - >>> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:46:50 -0500 >>> From: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: IEFBR14 >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:46:18 -0400, J R <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Just to be clear, IEFBR14 has no functionality per se. It's hard to >>>> imagine circumstances where it would not or could not execute correctly. >>> >>> I knew what he meant. He was referring to the downstream program that >>> attempted to read the data set created via IEFBR14. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS >>> mailto:[email protected] >>> Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html >>> Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

