Look at your DSName. It is not a valid MVS dataset name: too many characters without a period.
Lloyd >________________________________ > From: Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 9:59 AM >Subject: Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS > > >van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote: > >>Thanks Elardus, > >You're welcome! :-) > >>z/OS in question is z/OS 1.12 > >Ok. > >>Should have clarified this in my original note, but I'm not trying to write >>to a 'unix' file, I'm trying to write to a MVS dataset allocated to a DDName. >>Using a dataset name in the pax command works fine, but I want to use a >>DDName so that I can code RELEASE or write to tape. > >Then I suspect the ALLOC command is not working 100% with that keyword >combination. Could you try out TRACE in your REXX program to see what is >happening when REXX is trying to execute ALLOC command? > >If ALLOC is working (you see the DD is allocated at all), then I'm at lost. > >HTH! > >Groete / Greetings >Elardus Engelbrecht > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
