As others have pointed out "IDCAMS" is a NetView command that calls IDCAMS. The original intent was to allow you to automate maintenance of the VSAM files that NetView uses without bringing down NetView. However I sure that others, like you and me, have found other purposes for it.
We also use it for inbound file transfer automation to rename the files so they have date/time stamps. I have never experienced 878 abends, but that could be due to the number of times it is called. We now have FTP exits that add the date/time stamps when the file is created the majority of the time instead of after the transfer ends. So end up not doing renames calling IDCAMS that much. From NetView I don't know of another way to call IDCAMS, the only thing I can think of would be to change your automation so that instead of calling IDCAMS directly from NetView is to create a file with the control statements you need and then submit either a batch job or run it as a separate started task pointing to the file with the control statements. I think somebody else suggested this also. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
