Anthony,

Thank you, that's been my past experience also..

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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. 
>>> 
>>> 
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