van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote:
>I'm trying to use pax to write to a ddname. I'm doing this from a REXX exec
>that's running in batch under IKJEFT01. I'm not getting it to work.
What version of z/OS are you running?
>"ALLOC DD(PAX) DSN('"aBackupDsn"') OLD release"
>Results in pax: //DD:PAX: EDC5037I The specified ddname was not found.
My failing memory says you should rather use PATH(pathname) and DSNTYPE(HFS)
instead of DSN. It is a long time ago I tried/use ALLOC with a HFS file in REXX.
HTH!
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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